Is there a word for "Yess but no"?

[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.

[frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yaabernicht

[windyrebel@lemmy.world]

This always means no from my experience.

[altphoto@lemmy.today]

Well stated. Master Carlin would be proud of us.

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

German: Jein.

[stringere@sh.itjust.works]

Indubitably. Insomuch as he could be proud of anyone these days after all the many early warnings he gave rgarding the class war being the only war.

"It's one big club. And you ain't in it."

[altphoto@lemmy.today]

We all go to the other club after we reach our expiration date. That makes me regain my confidence in natural selection.