When you ask a "yes or no question" to in Indian, you will always get the answer "yes". That's why I started to change my questions and stopped asking "yes or no questions". For example, in stead of asking "Is the restaurant that way?" I will ask "Where is the restaurant?". When you take a rickshaw and you ask him: "Do you know the way?", he will always say yes, but then he will have to stop ten times to ask the way to someone. With the international trainees we have a joke and always say this conversation between an Indian and us:
Me: Can you bring me there?
Indian: Yes
Me: Do you know the way?
Indian: Yes
Me: Did you understand me?
Indian: Yes
Me: What did I just say?
Indian: Yes
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