SkyBlueFlux
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I think the really interesting discussion point in this debate is more about the difference between "yeah, no..." and "no, yeah... " and "yeah, no, for sure..."
“Yeah, no…”
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SebastianBlue
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“As I said, yeah, no, at any rate, with that in mind, I reckon I’ve done well.”
SebastianBlue
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Not necessarily isolated to footballers, but interviewees in general over the past few years have begun to answer every question with “that’s a great question”.
It’s a communication and personal engagement device that is taught in rhetoric and relations courses and via consultancy and it does my head in.
Every single question is not going to be “great” and when you say it every fucking time you respond you just sound like a disingenuous ****.
Someone awhile ago did a compilation of interviewees on various BBC programmes doing that was 3 minutes long, and it was just from
The past year.
It’s a communication and personal engagement device that is taught in rhetoric and relations courses and via consultancy and it does my head in.
Every single question is not going to be “great” and when you say it every fucking time you respond you just sound like a disingenuous ****.
Someone awhile ago did a compilation of interviewees on various BBC programmes doing that was 3 minutes long, and it was just from
The past year.
Saddleworth2
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No yes?
Or as the vicar of dibbley would have it: yes, yes, yes, yes, no.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I had an online training course at work this week, maybe 8 or 9 of us and the trainer and every question asked was indeed 'a great question'.
When she* asked at the end if any of us had any questions, I was dying to ask her which of the ''great questions'' asked did she think was 'the greatest'.
* I say she, we were all asked to identify which pronoun we preferred to be called and a few did say 'they', can't recall which she / they stated.
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Agree, very irritating. People starting their answer to a question with 'so' a few years ago was equally annoying. You even heard it on radio 4. I haven't heard that for a while now, probably because I haven't had the radio on.
Grassland Blue
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I see your vicar of Dibley and raise you Vikky Pollard of Little Britain
"Yeah but, no but"
Tuearts right boot
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...and he literally scored it with his head....the most over used, pointless word in the English language.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I agree with this, a lot of the time you hear this, the presenter asks the question and sometimes adds a little quip at the end, to which the person jokingly goes along with the quip, before correcting him / herself with the true replyThis is definitely not even close to being a new thing - as demonstrated by this article from 2004 which specifically talks about footballers being interviewed using the exact same phrasing:
Slang's 'yeah no' debate not all negative
www.theage.com.au
Most sources seem to date this phenomena as being from the 90s - originated by people who are now in their 50s.
Other languages have exactly the same devices - as the article says "ja, nein" is used in Germany, and "ya nay" in South Africa.
You are taking a phrase which conveys quite a specific meaning and trying to break it down into constituent linguistic parts which mean something entirely different. That's not really how language works. Combinations of words rarely mean the same thing as the simple addition of their individual constituents.
In context "yeah, no" is a way of showing agreement with the interviewer while also coming across as humble. That should be quite obvious from the examples you gave yourself.
