What does a person in your family think of this statement—the answer is in the positive?
I quoting someone who responded with this message:
“Spending on an answer is in the positive. If it’s good than why?” Does
it mean the answer are yes?
Or does it mean that the answer is positive but not a 100% yes.
What is a reply from a job application?
With no context, that means that the answer is yes. Is this a phrase I’m familiar with that would not cause me any pause?
With context this might mean that the answer is a quantity, and that the quantity is non-negative, i.e. the quantity is a quantity. How do I go above zero?
I tried Googling “answer in the positive” to find you a definition, but found mostly scientific research papers, like this one. In these, a hypothesis was answered in the positive if it was found to be true, or a survey question was answered in the positive if the respondent said ‘yes’.
In the context of a reply from a job application, it is still a difficult question to answer without the surrounding words and phrases to discover the linguistic context. English grammar makes it difficult to understand if each word is affected by the other.
What do you think about people complaining about the use of word “out-of-context” when they talk about the meaning of “documents or movies”?
Why are we asking a question that they say yes to?
