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Bu is one of maybe thirty words in Chinese I know. You've never been asked "yao bu yao"?

• shawabawa3 4y ago
  I think you misunderstood what I meant I was saying Chinese has no word for "no" but does have a negation word "bu" instead, so it's not the same as the language featured in the article which has no negation word at all
  • samatman 4y ago
    Yes, on a more careful reading I am able to infer the subject of the sentence, which you elided. Note that both comments replying to you misunderstood in the same way.
    • bobthepanda 4y ago
      Yeah I think the English phrasing that would make more sense (at least to me) would be > But there's also a word for negation which is how Chinese gets around not having no