[Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Guests on MSNBC this eve.:

"No, I fully agree."

"No, they absolutely should."

JL

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> CHICAGO WOMAN, age ca 50:  "So will Bob be at the dinner?"
>
> BOULDER WOMAN, age 69: "No, he'll be there."
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst, on CNN:
>>
>> "Right. Exactly. [Briefly discusses Trump and Putin.] So no, I totally
>> agree."
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Literally no.
>>>
>>> I see this as a defensive. Everybody's a skeptic, so many speakers
>>> interpret any response short of aggressive head-nodding as disbelief. The
>>> result, in the face of presumed or expected disbelief, is an affirming
>>> "no", meaning "no, I am serious, I mean this".
>>>
>>> I recognize this produces many instances of speakers saying "no" to
>>> speakers that are not contradictory. Nor do I like it. But I think I
>>> understand it.
>>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2017 9:28 AM, "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > POPPY HARLOW, CNN:  I assume that you're happy to see a little bit of
>>> toned
>>> > down rhetoric.
>>> >
>>> > JOHN KIRBY (former rear admiral, USN): I am, Poppy. No. No. I was. You
>>> > know, I think that speech was adequate to the task.
>>> >
>>> > Anybody seriously think he was contrasting "is" and "was"?
>>> >
>>> > JL
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > > Am still confident that this weirdness is a reduction of "yeah,
>>> no."
>>> > > Which
>>> > > > means, essentially, "yeah" in prefacing a reply to a previous
>>> speaker.
>>> > >
>>> > > Yayuh, naw. I concur
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
>>> > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> > > wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Keep chewing:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > VICTOR BLACKWELL: These committees are led by Republicans in both
>>> the
>>> > > House
>>> > > > and in the Senate. But Rene' was gonna come in with something.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > RENE' MARSH: No, what I was gonna say is, besides all of this, I
>>> mean,
>>> > > you
>>> > > > mentioned, y' know, the White House's strategy of coming after
>>> Hillary
>>> > > > Clinton as... in the lead-up to all we learned about yesterday.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > CNN, 8:11 am EST.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Am still confident that this weirdness is a reduction of "yeah,
>>> no."
>>> > > Which
>>> > > > means, essentially, "yeah" in prefacing a reply to a previous
>>> speaker.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > JL
>>> > > >
>>> > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 9:23 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > <Yes--no, ...>, maybe <So, ...>. (WB latest stray conspiracy
>>> > theories):
>>> > > > > 1  Among the social media emerge solutions to the folkish need
>>> for an
>>> > > > > <<at-times-pseudo-contrastive-speaker-switching-sentence-
>>> > > > > initial-particle>>.
>>> > > > > 2  Cf. NHG <nun ja!> 'that's true enough, granted'. Probably
>>> related
>>> > to
>>> > > > > Swedish [NAH-yah!] (Oh, come on, get real!).
>>> > > > > 3  Cf. Hittite <nu> 'satzeinleitende Partikel' (Pok.770 s.v.
>>> *nu(:)
>>> > > > 'now').
>>> > > > > (Can this be mere coincidence?)
>>> > > > > 4  "I like coffee, I like tea, I like the girls and the girls
>>> like
>>> > me:
>>> > > > Yes,
>>> > > > > no, maybe so..." (Harvey Weinstein trips up.)
>>> > > > >
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>>> > > -----
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>>> to
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>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>> truth."
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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