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Doesn’t really apply here. The answer can’t be just ‘no’. If the headline was ‘Is Malcom Gladwell a Good Writer?’ You’d have a point.

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This is a good point. In English “no” has a very specific contextual connotation and will not be interpreted as a general negative by most speakers. I would correct my earlier post but I cannot because no

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