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Default Does this answer sound strange?

Please read the below dialogue.

A: Would you mind not smoking here?

B: No, not at all.

Does B's saying sound odd?
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What the second speaker is saying does not sound odd to me. It is, in fact, a perfectly ordinary utterance. What he is saying is that he doesn't mind not smoking.

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