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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by boubiyeah on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:17AM (#17256525)
Seems common in Asia. I had the same experience in cambodia.

One example:

- I was very, very sick (Traveler's diarrhea) and we were about to embark for a 5 hours minivan trip with a guy without a driving license.

- 5 minutes before departure, I ask the organizer "do you have a vomit bag?"

- "Yes"

- I wait around a bit, but he carries on with his work and just ignore me

- "Sorry, did you have a bag, any bag? maybe a plastic bag, as I'm sick"

- "Yes"

- Now it's 30s before departure and I get pretty stressed as I have nothing should I need to throw up. So I ask him again, and he actually get pretty mad (with that asian "must not lose face" style though) and ignore me because I insisted and didn't just drop the issue (I didn't know what was going on at the time ...)

Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by est on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:19PM (#17262333)
Sounds like "yes" means "I heard ya" or "ACK"