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		chris_armstrong 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chines... I would say Australian English relies on this negation even more than British English, to the point of being confusing without more cultural context.

decimalenough 11 days ago | [–]

Yeah nah... nah yeah, you're right.

elyobo 10 days ago | [–]

Yeah, Kiwi English also, e.g. describing something as "not bad" rather than "good" is normal.

> How's things? > Not bad.

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