2011年10月24日 · (Update: This use of no is described at length in Schegloff, Emanuel A., Getting Serious: Joke → Serious ‘no’, Journal of Pragmatics, 2001, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 1947-1955. You can obtain the PDF here by filling out a little form.) I think this no gets to be practically subconscious in some people’s speech, and I suspect yeah, no comes ...

No, you are mistaken. According to ODO (yes, no), they are being used as exclamations which are presumably the same as interjections. Webster (yes, no) and Macmillan (yes, no), on the other hand, reckon that they are adverbs. Wiktionary (yes, no) chucks another spanner by stating that yes is being used as an adverb while no is being used as an ...

2017年4月28日 · The cat smiled and said, "Yes." "No," I replied, "he is unavailable." I hoped the answer would be yes, she could go. In so many words, I had to tell him no. In the last two examples, the words "yes" and "no" summarize the nature of the response, but do not necessarily reflect any spoken words.

2016年2月18日 · I think the OED's definition of Okay clarifies this nicely. It says "Expressing assent, concession, or approval, esp. with regard to a previous statement or question: yes, all right." So it is only in the sense of expressing approval that okay and yes mean the same thing. Other meanings of yes are not included.

2023年3月19日 · The comma is the key here. The “Yes,-” or “No,-“ is addressing the weather’s condition being nice or not. Saying “Yes,-“ would insinuate that you think the weather is nice, therefor disagreeing with Person A stating that it is not nice. Adding the “-it’s not.” would then make the sentence an oxymoron.

2017年7月5日 · X for No and O for Yes are clearly understood by everyone in Japan, but not in English. In fact, in my first Japanese class in the US, when the teacher used these symbols, I thought that X meant Yes because "X marks the spot." In my own Japanese to English translation, for tables, I usually spell out "Yes" and "No."

Answering 'no' to this kind of question is expressing disagreement. Answering 'yes' is expressing agreement. To avoid any chance of ambiguity, you can expressly state the disagreement. "No, we did not agree to meet here. We were supposed to meet at the restaurant."

2020年8月24日 · "Yes, I am supposed to be there at 7, but I think you're right that I won't make it." "No, I'm not supposed to be there at 7, so it doesn't matter if there isn't time to get there." "No, I'm not supposed to be there at 7, but I think I could make it anyway even if I …

2013年1月3日 · Section 7 of the US Constitution specifies that Congress must vote on bills using Yea and Nay, and so it does. That specification instead of Yes and No still had meaning in formal matters the 1700s per the four-form Yea/Yes/Nay/No system mentioned by Branimir Ćaćić, even though Yea and Nay were by then falling out of use in common speech.

2016年12月30日 · 'Yeah. No.' in the sense of 'You're right: it's wrong.' As I noted at the beginning of this answer, use of "Yeah. No." often indicates "On first thought yes, but on second thought no." In other situations, however, the sense of "Yeah. No." can be "Yes, I'm following or agreeing with what you're saying and the the answer is indeed negative."