• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    American representatives have been going around knocking on one door after another in recent days to ask if they would like to have a visit from the vice president’s wife. Everywhere the answer was the same: “No, otherwise thank you,” says Steinmetz.

    ahahaha! Greenlanders were far more polite than I would have been.

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      5 days ago

      I’d bet at least some were a lot more graphic than what was reported. I’d really love to like, run into a Greenlander in this thread whose door was knocked on and hear what they actually said. There had to be at least a few “go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar” type responses

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      5 days ago

      “no, otherwise thank you” (nej, ellers tak) can be said in a variety of ways.

      The entire purpose of adding more words to a “no” is to have more words for expression.

      Even in the most polite way it basically means “definitely no”.