That's similar to when Aussies for some reason tend to go respond to a question like:
PersonA: "Hey what'd ya think of the movie?" PersonB: "Yeah, nah, it was good but i felt the blah was a bit overtop" Could be worse, you could suffer from "So.." as a prefix to all sentences :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > How technical people derail conversations by saying "well actually" > > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html > > > > That's nothing compared to starting a sentence with "Yeah, No, ..." > > > > A work colleague of mine used to say that frequently 20 years ago and I > never heard it again until a few years ago when it started to spring up > everywhere. It seems to have spread like a virus, infecting people of all > walks of life. I hope someone is doing PhD research to discover where it > came from. > > > > Greg
