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As far as I know it has nothing to do with them not understanding the difference between 'yes' and 'I hear you', but rather a cultural avoidance of the word 'no

• sitepodmatt 9y ago
  I think that's where the loose neck comes into play, it's another alternative to avoid saying No. You learn fast when teaching in India, you become almost ruthless, once bitten by the loose neck you do everything to avoid it. It's no fun going through basic regex and onwards then after 4hrs morning of the workshop realizing that everyone was lost after 2 minutes, after that you no longer accept non-verbal communication. You still get a lot of bullshit in verbal though, this was ten years ago, but I recently reminded when contracting someone on upwork and getting a 'i can do' to everything when reality they probably just took a khan academy class the day before, and thus totally useless, we still paid him and wished him well and ended contract another lesson learnt.