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What language does not have the words yes and no?

There are no words for "yes" and "no" in Scottish Gaelic. Agreement and disagreement are expressed in full sentences. When Gaelic children learn English, they are first taught what "yes" and "no" are and what they mean.

The Chinese language does not have specific words for "yes" and "no". When you need to answer a question, you just need to repeat the verb: for example, to the question "Do you like rice?" the Chinese should answer "I love" or "I don't like".

If there is no active verb in the question, for example, "Is today Monday?", then the positive answer is a linking verb 是 like to be in English, and the negative answer is the same linking verb with a negative particle 不是.

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Before the invention of the telescope, the most distant planet available for observation was Saturn (more distant planets cannot be seen with the naked eye). The first telescope appeared in 1608, but more than 170 years passed before the discovery of Uranus, although it was repeatedly observed during this period, describing it as a dim star.

The Aristotelian idea that the number of wandering bodies, planets in the etymological sense of the word, should be equal to seven (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn plus the Sun and Moon), is so rooted in the minds of astronomers that no one followed the period of movement of this dim object.

The honor of discovering a new planet belongs to William Herschel, a musician from Hanover who moved to England. In March 1781, for several nights, he observed a section of the sky in the direction of the constellation Gemini and noticed a volumetric non-point object that slowly moved across the firmament. At first, Herschel thought it was a comet, but the edges of comets seem blurry, and the body he observed was bright and clear.

Astronomers and mathematicians throughout Europe began to calculate the size and orbit of the mysterious object. Already in May 1781, it became finally clear that for the first time since ancient times a planet had been discovered.

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