I was in Melbourne last week. While I was there, I noticed an odd phrase that the locals kept using. It goes “yeah, no…”<\/p>\n
I could not quite work out what it means. Is it just a way to agree? Perhaps a polite way to at least partially disagree? Or, it is a self-effacement (this one was based mostly on context of use).<\/p>\n
I asked several of my Australian colleagues. There was no consensus in their responses. So, I left Melbourne no wiser as to the meaning of this phrase. This itself is an oddity, since my Aussie colleagues are usually nothing if not clear and direct. <\/p>\n
Am I happy that I don’t understand this? Yeah, no…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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