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

Mon Mar 5 18:49:35 UTC 2018

The POTUS:   Don't forget China's great and Xi is a great gentleman. He's
now president for life. President for life.

Crowd: [Laughter, cheers, and applause.]

The POTUS: No, he's great!

JL

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:04 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> wrote:

> One of the characters in the mongoose anecdote says:
> "No, that's true,"
>
> JL has mentioned this construct in recent days, but in this case the
> character is responding to a remark containing negation.
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> "But they aren't real snakes, you know!" exclaimed the fat man,
> opening his mouth until the other could see his cork-soles.
>
> "No, that's true," said the quiet man, getting up and putting the box
> under his coat: "but then this isn't a real mongoose, you see!" And he
> evaporated out of the door, while the fat man stared thoughtfully out
> of the window at the flickering gas-lamps.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > >
> >>>> > > > --
> >>>> > > > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle
> the
> >>>> > > truth."
> >>>> > > >
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> >>>> > >
> >>>> > >
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> >>>> > > -Wilson
> >>>> > > -----
> >>>> > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange
> complaint
> >>>> to
> >>>> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> >>>> > > -Mark Twain
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> >>>> truth."
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> >>> truth."
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
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