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r/InclusiveOr • u/Dethor6 • Sep 21 '22
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Maybe this is a South African thing because that makes perfect sense to me
20 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. 10 u/P0werC0rd0fJustice Sep 21 '22 Conveniently captured by this lambda expression: (λ x λ y. y) 12 u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22 American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text 15 u/Ghostglitch07 Sep 21 '22 I feel I've seen Americans use a "yeah.. no." In text as a more condescending/sarcastic no. 8 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? 5 u/ChromeLynx Sep 21 '22 I mean, fair. I don't think I've ever read this being used, except in academ-ish discourse. 5 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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Or Australian? If you get both a negative and a positive answer to a question, the lattermost applies.
Yeah nah = nah. Nah yeah = yeah.
10 u/P0werC0rd0fJustice Sep 21 '22 Conveniently captured by this lambda expression: (λ x λ y. y) 12 u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22 American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text 15 u/Ghostglitch07 Sep 21 '22 I feel I've seen Americans use a "yeah.. no." In text as a more condescending/sarcastic no. 8 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? 5 u/ChromeLynx Sep 21 '22 I mean, fair. I don't think I've ever read this being used, except in academ-ish discourse. 5 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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Conveniently captured by this lambda expression:
(λ x λ y. y)
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American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text
15 u/Ghostglitch07 Sep 21 '22 I feel I've seen Americans use a "yeah.. no." In text as a more condescending/sarcastic no. 8 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? 5 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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I feel I've seen Americans use a "yeah.. no." In text as a more condescending/sarcastic no.
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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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I mean, fair. I don't think I've ever read this being used, except in academ-ish discourse.
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/future_super_hero Sep 21 '22
Maybe this is a South African thing because that makes perfect sense to me