Flag proposal [OT]
Andrej Mitrovic
andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 10:04:47 PDT 2011
On 6/11/11, Alix Pexton <alix.DOT.pexton at gmail.dot.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 06:18, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> We should rename Yes and No to Yay and Nay to make them alignable, and
>> even more importantly to make us appear as old Englishmen!
>
> "Yay" and "Nay" are too similar looking, but luckily, "Yay" is not
> actually a old English word :) A more correct alternative would be
> "Aye" (pronounced the same as "eye"), which (along with "Nay") is still
> used for some voting actions (such as councillors deciding where to go
> for lunch). I myself say it al least 20 times a day :)
>
> A...
>
Oh damn, yay is what teenage girls would say, not old Englishmen. My
bad, it really is "Aye". :p
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