To hate the trend for adding no to the end of sentences?

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Why do people do it?!

‘Eggs don’t need to be kept in the fridge, no?’

’It’s hot in here, no?’

Why? Why is it a trend? Makes no sense whatsoever.

Yep it's mam!!

I’m Scottish and have fallen out of the habit but used to say
at the end
ken?
ye know?
which means you know? No?

I’ve only seen that here. I think it’s a posh thing.

I only ever see it on here.
I think it might not be annoying spoken in real life but on here it always seems to be written in a smug, passive aggressive way.
Probably by the same people who go to the supermarket to source ingredients for dinner and do tinkley little laughs.

I have always thought it came from a certain culture?

It always sounds passive aggressive to me. I find it really abrasive.

I detest this habit. The use of "actively" before every second verb makes me homicidal.

It can be confusing.

I haven’t heard ‘no’ but I loathe ‘right?’.

Honestly, it's such a standard way to end sentences in so many languages, I can't get riled up about this one!

I usually say "... isn't it" or "... don't they" etc.
I also say "... innit", "... yes?" and "... no?"
Unapologetically 😂

Now I've realised what an easy wind-up this is, I might start using n'est-ce pas or even nicht wahr. Just on Mumsnet, I'm not that much of a knob in real life.

Every time someone does this you must immediately break into song:

No, a deer, a female deer, Nay, a drop of golden sun, Ne, a name I call myself; Nar a long long way to run etc until it brings us back to NO!

They’ll soon get the hint.

Really? I think putting ‘no’ at the end of the sentence is like sooo annoying 😂!

All sentences strung together by stupid people should start with a so and end with a no to avoid delays in imbecility recognition.

It’s probably just come across linguistically from being a multicultural nation. Same way slang develops, this is normal and doesn’t need to be rage inducing. I mean, English has French roots so we’re just borrowing from the source language again.

Yep Mam here too!! At least I’m a Mam and my Mam’s a Mam, but most people round here are Mum 🤷‍♀️??

It's a very common way of speaking in Scotland.

This is exactly what came to my mind after reading the OP.

I have very occasionally added “n’est pas?” when making a remark to one of my friends or colleagues in a Peter Ustinov playing Hercule Poirot style. This business of regularly adding “no?”is annoying though in the way that OP described. Just seems unnecessary to me. With “eggs don’t need to be kept in the fridge?” you can make it clear you’re asking a question, not making a statement simply with a bit of inflection when saying it (or a similar thing).

Reading through the thread I was reminded of a teacher years ago who used to add “isn’t it?” to quite a lot of their sentences.That was equally annoying.

I don't remember hearing it in real life but better than 'like'

Here it’s self-effacing rather than passive-aggressive, as in, ‘I am making my view public but aware others may feel differently, no?’ Or, seeking confirmation - ‘youse are busy on a Monday, no?’ We don’t want to be going around just saying stuff without inviting the other person to tell us we’re wrong. Or checking they agree. That would be rude😝

My mum’s side of the family go in for ‘don’t we not?’ As in ‘people on Mumsnet don’t like it when people say ‘no’ at the end of sentences, don’t they not?’ So - do not I not? Definitely, no?

😂

But also, we have 'aren't you?' for those 'checking' cases where you're genuinely unsure.

'[question], no?' is definitely code for 'you fucking idiot'.

YANBU it grinds on me 🥹 another one is e.g. ' 'And you're asking me that why?'
Obviously should be "Why are you asking me that?'
Also those who answer a question with "Do you know what " before they answer 🤪
Lighthearted but annoying all the same