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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: &quot;Let your yes be yes&quot;	&lt;---&gt; &quot;It is rude to say no&quot;</H1>
    <B>andre999</B> 
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<PRE>Johnny A. Solbu a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> On Friday 13 July 2012 04:47, andre999 wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Don't forget that often people will say yes because they would like to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> do something, without seriously considering the various demands on their
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> time.  They think it is a good idea, and they want to contribute.  (I
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> tend to be somewhat like that.)
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</I>&gt;<i> That is completely different from what sparked this discussion. There is a big difference in accepting a job with the intent to do it, and later on finding that you can't do it, and accepting it just because one have problems saying &quot;No&quot;, with no intent of doing it. It is the latter I have talked about.
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</I>Not as I read the original post.
Did the person mean &quot;yes, I have the time and will definitely do it&quot;,
  or &quot;yes, I would like to do it&quot;,
  or &quot;yes, I might do it&quot;,
  or &quot;yes, I think it is a very good idea that somebody do it&quot; ?
Often the person saying &quot;yes&quot; doesn't even know what type of yes they 
are giving, because they haven't really thought about what was involved 
in doing it.
So how can others know ?
What Marja seems (to me) to be asking is that we have consideration that 
the person saying &quot;yes&quot; wasn't, for whatever reason, as committed to 
doing it as we might have thought.
And not to react by blaming them.

Don't forget, we are not necessarily talking about well-defined tasks.  
Contributions are often start out fairly vague, refined over time.

And often, out of politeness, we ask &quot;would you like to do ...&quot;.
So what does &quot;yes&quot; mean then ?

-- 
Andr&#233;

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