{"id":823,"date":"2015-04-09T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=823"},"modified":"2015-04-09T05:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T05:39:55","slug":"no-means-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/no-means-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"No means yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reposting from <em>The New Yorker<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Part of \u201cNo, Totally\u201d Don\u2019t You Understand?<\/strong><br \/> By Kathryn Schulz<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago, I walked into a friend\u2019s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. This worked, and struck me as brilliant, but I mention it only to illustrate a characteristic that I admire in our species: given almost any entity, we will find a way to use it for something other than its intended purpose. We commandeer cafeteria trays to go sledding, \u201cThe Power Broker\u201d to prop open the door, the Internet to look at kittens. We do this with words as well\u2014time was, spam was just Spam\u2014but, lately, we have gone in for a particularly dramatic appropriation. In certain situations, it seems, we have started using \u201cno\u201d to mean \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/what-part-of-no-totally-dont-you-understand\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/what-part-of-no-totally-dont-you-understand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposting from The New Yorker: What Part of \u201cNo, Totally\u201d Don\u2019t You Understand? By Kathryn Schulz Not long ago, I walked into a friend\u2019s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. 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