Quote Originally Posted by xXHoax View Post
As well as: "Ты не хочешь банан?" - "да(I don't)", а на английском, "Do you not want a banana?" - "no (I don't)", casually I guess we just ignore the negation. Answering "yes" to this question always confuses both people, so we either don't ask questions like that or say something like "no, I don't" or 'yes, I do". Very confusing. But apparently Russian handles this differently?
As a Russian joke says, at the next presidential election in a certain country all the ballots will only have 1 question in them, which will read, "Вы не против переизбрать текущего президента на следующий срок?" (do you mind just reelecting the current president for the next term?), and the options given will be "Да, не против" and "Нет, не против"