yeah, no
Victor Steinbok
aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 20 18:39:49 UTC 2012
In this case, "Yeah, yeah..." seems oddly appropriate.
VS-)
On 7/20/2012 2:00 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
> Speakers of continental Germanic languages often have "Ja, ja!" uttered quickly with a low falling intonation to signal sarcastic "Yeah, right!". I've heard the equivalent in English too, but less commonly.
>
> Paul Johnston
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