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astrangeyesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

One thing I remember from languagelog is that almost all English speakers have a form of "yeah no" and they all think they invented it.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30758

Might be Scottish.


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tomlockwoodtoday at 12:00 AM

Not only did Australians invent it, we also invented Pavlova, Sam Neill, etc.

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