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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:41:15 -0700
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On 7/21/2024 8:52 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
>   Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Iúil, scríobh Aidan Kehoe:
> 
>   >  Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Iúil, scríobh Ruud Harmsen:
>   >
>   >  > Sun, 21 Jul 2024 09:29:23 +0200: Bertel Lund Hansen
>   >  > <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> scribeva:
>   >  >
>   >  > >Peter Moylan wrote:
>   >  > >
>   >  > >> Another comment of his that still sticks with me: Have you noticed
>   >  > >> that Irish people never answer a question with "yes" or "no"? A
>   >  > >> typical exchange:
> 
> (“Never” overstates it, we do speak English and make full use of its idioms.)
> 
>   >  > >>      Are you still living in Limerick?
>   >  > >>      I am.
> 
>   >  > >> This is because the Irish language has no words for "yes" and "no", and
>   >  > >> somehow this has affected Irish English.
>   >  > >
>   >  > >Amazing. Do they nod and shake their heads for yes and no?
>   >  >
>   >  > They do.
>   >
>   > Well answered, Ruud!
> 
> Classical Greek and Latin also did not have words for “yes” and “no”; you see
> an echo of this in the marriage ceremony. In English, translated without regard
> for idiom, it is: “Q: Do you take [this woman] to be your lawfully wedded
> [wife], [...] A: I do.” German has something like:
> 
>    »Q: N., ich frage Sie: Sind Sie hierher gekommen, um nach reiflicher
>    Überlegung und aus freiem Entschluss mit Ihrer Braut (Name) / mit Ihrem
>    Bräutigam (Name) / den Bund der Ehe zu schließen? A: Ja«
> 
> which is a more idiomatic translation.
> 


So in German it's  always   just   [Ja] ?