To hate this, no?

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What is this trend with people sticking 'no' on the end of a sentence as a question? It drives me crackers.

'This drink is strong, no?'
'Going halters is fair, no?'
'We can get the bus at 7:30, no?'
'We won't eat a pizza each, no?'

I can't bear it. Where has it come from?

And yes, lighthearted, not my biggest concern, but still annoying, no?

Yes, as you say, mildly annoying. I think it sounds affected.

no no no yes

Agreed. It sounds pretentious.

Ah, yet another germanism that is infiltrating English.

It's absolutely fine when used in most your examples but the way you've used it in your title would annoy me, no?

My husband is from another european country and this is how they ask questions and its rubbed off on me and the children in English.

I always associate it with East European languages. The same with putting 'not so much' at the end of sentences as well.

Imo it's better than when people say "don't you think?" At the end.

Eh? We don’t say „nein“ in German after making a statement in German, what are you on about? 😂

It's worse when a sentence ends with 'non'.

Surely that's worse, non? 😬

It annoys me too...I see it more and more on Mumsnet and it makes me grimace!
It's a bit pretentious, no?

That was exactly what I was going to post. The French may finish a question with "...non?" or similar, but I've never come across this as a particularly or even remotely German linguistic thing.

My DH does this a lot and yes it drives me mad. Usually when he is looking for something. So for example I will be in the lounge and he will call out from the kitchen have you seen my wallet. I reply no. A few minutes later he will then appear in the lounge and say its not in here no.
Grrr

I hate it. It's up there with 'Gah' and 'Makes my teeth itch'
Makes me think bad thoughts about people I don't even know 😆

It's very irritating, just as saying "so".. at the beginning of something is.

I have never knowingly encountered this, but I suspect I'm going to start seeing it everywhere now.

No?

It’s very Cornish to say ‘or no’ at the end of a sentence.
‘You you want a pasty or no?’

I don't mind it at all. It's just inviting your opinion.

Yeh, no, yeah. It's annoying

I'm not keen on it. I feel it's passive aggressive and used by those who don't want you to disagree with them.

I can go one worse.

someone I know finishes each statement something like this:

Me, ‘what are you up to this weekend?’
Her, ‘we are going to the chiropodist, aren’t we?’

Me, ‘how’s DS getting on in his new job?’
Her, ‘oh great, he’s been promoted to chief photocopier assistant, hasn’t he?’

err, ok, am I supposed to know that?

Almost every sentence finishes in this way and no matter how many times I say that nope, I didn’t know that she keeps it up.

I don't find it irritating tbh, and I'm not at all convinced it's either 'wrong' in English or a particularly recent phenomenon. I teach a few languages, a couple of which use no at the end of sentences in this way, plus German which doesn't, as has already been pointed out.

I just canvassed 16yo dd's opinion. She reckons it sounds old-fashioned rather than recent. She says she can imagine a posh Victorian lady saying "I say, those crumpets are delightful, no?"

This has been around for ages.

How would we know?

Yes!!

Or when people can’t start any sentence without saying … ‘right’ .. wtf does that even mean 🙄