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JungKim Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

No, you do.

The following is a dialogue from an animation called Hotel Transylvania:

Frankenstein: I don't have no cousin.
Dracula: No, no, you do. He's your sixth cousin three times removed.

What's the difference between "No, you do" and "Yes, you do" in this context?
  

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JungKim What's the difference between "No, you do" and "Yes, you do" in this context? Nothing that I can think of.

— Mister Micawber

  • JungKim What's the difference between "No, you do" and "Yes, you do" in this context?
  • Nothing that I can think of.
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JungKimWhat's the difference between "No, you do" and "Yes, you do" in this context?
Nothing that I can think of.
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But I remember being taught that it's either "Yes, you do" or "No, you don't".
I mean, in conversational English, you're supposed to use "yes" in a positive response and "no" in a negative one.
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JungKimNo, no, you do.
No, no ~ You are wrong / What you say is not true.
you do ~ You have a cousin.
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Yes, you do ~ You do have a cousin. (No emphasis on saying that the other person is wrong.)
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So they are the same in meaning. This happens often when contradicting a negative statem
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