Blog: deux petites vagues pour me noyer
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newyorker: “No, totally.” “No, definitely.” “No, exactly.” “No, yes.” These curious uses turn “no” into a kind of contranym: a word that can function as its own opposite. Kathryn Schulz writes:Ultimately, it is the semantics that