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> Let me tell you clearly. “No” is a complete sentence. It requires no explanation or defense. Why would it matter if it's a complete sentence? If the response
by saghm 5y ago
> Let me tell you clearly. “No” is a complete sentence. It requires no explanation or defense.
Why would it matter if it's a complete sentence? If the response was "The fish is yellow at midnight", it would be a complete sentence but an absolutely useless answer, and the response was just nodding their head, that would be reasonable even without any words, let alone a sentence. To put it n programming terms, arguing that a response needs no explanation because it happens to be a grammatically compete sentence (which honestly is a bit questionable in this case) is like saying that the `reverse` method on a list is a valid sorting algorithm because it compiles. It's totally reasonable to express a sorting algorithm in pseudocode that doesn't compile in any real language, and there are obviously a vast number of methods that compile that don't do anything resembling sorting.