Is there a word for "Yess but no"?

[quilotoa@lemmy.ca]

Yeah, right.

[langweiligeflunder@feddit.org]

"Doch" is more like a logical "not" (¬).

Example:

Alice: "Bob, you don't like apples.
Bob: "Doch" (Bob likes apples)

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

In the US it's common to say "Yeah no".

[dumbass@leminal.space]

Yeahnah.

[clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works]

I've always thought of doch as an affirmative where a negative was expected.

[meekah@lemmy.world]

I don't think its about the expectation of a negative, but rather it specifically disagrees with a previous negative, saying it is in fact positive. Doesn't work with disagreement in general, only when the challenged statement was negative.

[clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works]

That's clearer, I agree.

[altphoto@lemmy.today]

Would "fuck you!" Fill in the void? I have a feeling that yes, Indeed it would.

[mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works]

Ahhh yeah naww

[greenknight23@lemmy.world]

maybe....just maybe.

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

"fine...whatever."

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

For some reason, I'm never successful at linking to specific times in YouTube videos (yes, I tried &t=35s), but try about 35 seconds into this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n9k1fGypyEo

[sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

"Could do."

[triflingtoad@sh.itjust.works]

are you gonna answer the question?

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

Fuck you

[altphoto@lemmy.today]

Confirmed! LOL!

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

I do think it depends heavily on inflection.

It's got to have that friendly familiar drawn out "fuuuuuuck you" that connotes "yes, you're right", "I disagree", and "fuck you" simultaneously.

[morphballganon@mtgzone.com]

"Let's circle back to this"

[billbasher@lemmy.world]

Also “No yeah”. The second one applies!

[cracks_inthewalls@sh.itjust.works]

It's common to say it in Canada too, but it can either mean no, yes, or simply be a placeholder phrase.

It's the Schrödinger's Cat of utterances - you don't know which it is until the sentence is finished/you elucidate from the broader conversational context.