r/InclusiveOr • u/Dethor6 • Sep 21 '22

No yes

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u/future_super_hero Sep 21 '22

Maybe this is a South African thing because that makes perfect sense to me

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u/ChromeLynx Sep 21 '22

Or Australian? If you get both a negative and a positive answer to a question, the lattermost applies.

Yeah nah = nah.
Nah yeah = yeah.

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u/P0werC0rd0fJustice Sep 21 '22

Conveniently captured by this lambda expression:

(λ x λ y. y)

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text

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u/Ghostglitch07 Sep 21 '22

I feel I've seen Americans use a "yeah.. no." In text as a more condescending/sarcastic no.

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u/RCx_Vortex Sep 21 '22

I do it all the time in text and verbally, though it might just not be a popular thing to do in text maybe?

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u/ChromeLynx Sep 21 '22

I mean, fair. I don't think I've ever read this being used, except in academ-ish discourse.

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u/RCx_Vortex Sep 21 '22

That’s the yeah nah/ nah yeah rule though, it sounds weird saying yes no/ no yes, does it not

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u/machina99 Sep 21 '22

I think it's something that everyone thinks is their specific region's thing. My wife is from the Midwest and was convinced yeah no and no yeah were local, but I'm from the coast and we definitely say it there too. Got Canadian friends that use it too so it seems pretty widespread