I'm an American living in Australia and I have have a question for the Australians on this board. Why do you always precede 'no' or 'nah' with a 'yeah' first?
Example
>Hey X are you coming along this afternoon? >Oh yeah nah I can't make it
Sometimes the opposite is done too
>Oh nah yeah I'll be there
And sometimes it gets really confusing when you add multiple yeahs and nahs in there
>Oh yeah nah yeah nah yeah mate, nah yeah I won't be there, sorry mate
Why do you do this? It makes it so hard understanding whether you mean yes or no and I can't tell if I'm just being made fun of
Parker Sanchez
there is a name for it but i forgot it's cultural basically it's an opener for their frustration or agreement there were cheatsheet list a few months ago
yea nah nah yea yea...nah nah...yea etc
Noah Fisher
>seppo can't understand basic lingo what a fucking surprise, Hank.
Jose Sullivan
>yeah nah you expect me to give an affirmative answer and I understand that but I have to give a negative answer
>nah yeah same as above but opposite
Nathan Robinson
>yeah nah Acknowledged but no. or Yeah, right.
>nah yeah What? Oh wait! Yes.
Carter Evans
we say "yeah no" where i live
Logan Gutierrez
yeah nah yeah nah nah yeah it's just you fucken yank cunce cant understand a fucken word ay? fucken yeah nah fuck oath
Brody King
Pipe down lads
Jordan Hall
That seems really stupid.
Dominic Young
>That seems really stupid
so is losing a war to the Vietnamese but that didn't stop you
Liam Reed
...
Jason Evans
Says the country that lost to birds.
Lincoln Walker
Shit meme
Brandon Gomez
fookin strewth m8. properly embarrassed here ngl
Nathan James
>American "humour"
Kayden Adams
Nah mate we're like Germany: It was just failed pest control.
Charles Baker
Oi, you fucked up in the head or something? stop getting your head off you tosser. proper aussie here, m8, strewth
Kevin Roberts
I'm moving to Australia next month for schools and worried about the apparent insistence on refusing to talk like human fucking beings. Fucking prisoners.
Charles Green
Just speak Mandarin; they're all chinks too.
Robert Morales
>awaits the Diary of Emu Francis
Samuel Russell
It's pretty straight-forward. Yeah nah - I understand the implications of your request, and acknowledge it. However I must decline. Nah yeah - I don't really understand the implications of your request, though I'll agree and go along wit hit anyway.
Sometimes it's "the implications of your request" but rather like this and sometimes it can just be conversation filler and pacing
Jose Carter
*it's not
Jack Wright
>We literally do the same.
t. gaijin
Elijah Rodriguez
What the fuck are you on about, North Americans do the same thing - "Yeah, no".
