On boolean values, and the number of letters in words representing them

[pne]

simont was annoyed that

almost any pair of words you can think of to represent boolean values have different numbers of letters, so that it's inconvenient to line them up in tabular layouts in a fixed-width font. TRUE/FALSE, YES/NO, ON/OFF. All of them out by one. Even if you look further afield to things like YEP/NOPE and YEAH/NAH, you don't find a matching pair.

One suggestion was YA RLY / NO WAI :)

Comments

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I quite literally LOLed. The birds took offense at this and squawked at me.

[tungol.livejournal.com]

yea and nay ?

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see the original post has AYE and NAY but has objections and I guess the same objections would apply to YEA and NAY.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

My vote goes to YA RLY and NO WAI. Very clever. ;D

[bride.livejournal.com]

1/0 works quite well. =)

[zompist.livejournal.com]

OUI/NON...?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yes, and SÍ/NO. Though I think both pairs are not what your average person is likely to come up with.

Simon did mention the OUI/NON pair: French can find OUI/NON with no difficulty at all (although I have no idea whether French programmers actually use those for booleans).