Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Affirmatives/reply (12)

You're both right, that modern Japanese uses affirmative words for the purposes mentioned, but it is still the case that the words have affirmative meanings. Moreover, I'm interested in traditional meaning over innovated meaning; was used in the past despite its modern disuse, and  (おう) is a Sino-Japanese borrowing, which may have never been directly used to affirm statements, but which nevertheless holds the meaning of affirmation which seems to be lacking in any form in Proto-Indo-European.