<Li> and negatively for example with nâ, meaning "no one" (John 8: 10, 11, "he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord ."). </Li> <P> Marsh calls this four - form system of Early Modern English a "needless subtlety". Tooke called it a "ridiculous distinction", with Marsh concluding that Tooke believed Thomas More to have simply made this rule up and observing that Tooke is not alone in his disbelief of More . Marsh, however, points out (having himself analyzed the works of John Wycliffe, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Skelton, and Robert of Gloucester, and Piers Ploughman and Le Morte d'Arthur) that the distinction both existed and was generally and fairly uniformly observed in Early Modern English from the time of Chaucer to the time of Tyndale . But after the time of Tyndale, the four - form system was rapidly replaced by the modern two - form system . </P> <P> Several languages have a three - form system, with two affirmative words and one negative . In a three - form system, the affirmative response to a positively phrased question is the unmarked affirmative, the affirmative response to a negatively phrased question is the marked affirmative, and the negative response to both forms of question is the (single) negative . For example, in Norwegian the affirmative answer to "Snakker du norsk?" ("Do you speak Norwegian?") is "Ja", and the affirmative answer to "Snakker du ikke norsk?" ("Do you not speak Norwegian?") is "Jo", while the negative answer to both questions is "Nei". </P> <P> Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Hungarian, German, Dutch, and French all have three - form systems . Swedish and Danish have ja, jo, and nej . Norwegian has ja, jo / jau, and nei . Icelandic has já, jú and nei . Faroese has ja, jú and nei . Hungarian has igen, de, and nem . German has ja, doch, and nein . Dutch has ja, jawel, and nee. French has oui, si, and non . </P>

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