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Answering a "yes or no" question with single words meaning yes or no is by no means universal. About half the world's languages typically employ an echo response: repeating the verb in the question in an affirmative or a negative form. Some of these also have optional words for yes and no, like Hungarian, Russian, and Portuguese.
Yep or YEP may refer to: A form of yes, an affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no "Yep!", a 1959 Duane Eddy song; Yorkshire Evening Post, a ...
In English, these are yes and no respectively, in French oui, si and non, in Danish ja, jo and nej, in Spanish sí and no and so on. Not all languages make such common use of particles of this type; in some (such as Welsh) it is more common to repeat the verb or another part of the predicate, with or without negation accordingly.
A vendor in Madrid weighs a bunch of grapes at the market on New Year's Eve. / Credit: Europa Press News via Getty Images
Most words that are subject to ingressive speech are feedback words ("yes, no") or very short or primal (a cry of pain or sobbing). It sometimes occurs in rapid counting to maintain a steady airflow throughout a long series of unbroken sounds. It is also very common in animals, frogs, dogs, and cats (purring).
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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
There’s a lot of information out there about how to lose weight—and some tidbits are more reliable than others. But new research suggests that tweaking your diet to feature more protein and ...