> Once again, there is NO SHORTAGE of affordable housing either in the US or in Canada. > None. Nada. Zilch. Ноль. 零 Interesting. 零 means zero. But my (non-na

> Once again, there is NO SHORTAGE of affordable housing either in the US or in Canada. > None. Nada. Zilch. Ноль. 零 Interesting. 零 means zero. But my (non-native!) instinct says that it's impossible to use it this way. I feel like you'd need 没有. Classical Chinese has a negative universal quantifier 莫 (though in a technical sense it's an adverb and doesn't modify or stand in for nouns), but I don't think I've ever seen anything similar in modern Mandarin. I feel like I'd have to use a positive quantifier and a negative claim.