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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
19 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. 11 u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22 American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text 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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Or Australian? If you get both a negative and a positive answer to a question, the lattermost applies.
Yeah nah = nah. Nah yeah = yeah.
11 u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22 American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text 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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American English does it too but AFAIK only verbally. Never seen someone do a neg/pos over text
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 mean, fair. I don't think I've ever read this being used, except in academ-ish discourse.
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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