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It's interesting that in Catalan you may say oi [0] in addition to sí. It is more commonly used in questions and to answer such questions. For example: Plou molt, oi? Oi. There's a construct that is very common and redundant: oi que sí? == right that yes?, which would be translated as an emphatic "right?" [0] http://mdlc.iec.cat/results.asp?txtEntrada=Oi&operEntrada=0
And then the Bulgarians also have approximately reversed vs Western Europe head movements for yes and no, to maximise confusion :)
It's interesting that in Catalan you may say oi [0] in addition to sí. It is more commonly used in questions and to answer such questions. For example: Plou molt, oi? Oi. There's a construct that is very common and redundant: oi que sí? == right that yes?, which would be translated as an emphatic "right?" [0] http://mdlc.iec.cat/results.asp?txtEntrada=Oi&operEntrada=0
It sounds like a calque of regular Spanish 'a que si' rather than anything else.
It's interesting that in Catalan you may say oi [0] in addition to sí. It is more commonly used in questions and to answer such questions. For example: Plou molt, oi? Oi. There's a construct that is very common and redundant: oi que sí? == right that yes?, which would be translated as an emphatic "right?" [0] http://mdlc.iec.cat/results.asp?txtEntrada=Oi&operEntrada=0
It sounds like a calque of regular Spanish 'a que si' rather than anything else.
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It sounds like a calque of regular Spanish 'a que si' rather than anything else.
Not oui in French?
Yaaassss https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/yas
Sardinian for yes is 'eja' which I've read is derived differently from the two methods suggested here though I haven't seen any suggestions on what that derivation might be.
Really? In modern Irish we substitute Tá for yes but it's not really yes. We don't have yes or no, we repeat the verb of the question positively or negatively. Tá is kind of 'am', níl 'am not' like
"Are you going to watch Mrs Browns Boys tonight?" "I am not."
Are they really comparable? Maybe somewhere along the line Tá (pronounced 'taw') was taken for 'yes'.