# When did "Yeah, no..." become the new "Well..."?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 8, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-yeah-no-become-the-new-well/980866 "2023-03-08T11:05:20Z")\
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My thread from 2011:

> [@Yeah, No...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-no/567670):
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> This is probably one of those “critical mass” things where I finally got overexposed to something to the point that it started bugging me a bit, and then, oversensitized, noticed it everywhere when actually it had been there all along… maybe. Here’s the deal: one of my girlfriends keeps saying “yeah, no” in conversation. The usual pattern is something like this: Her: My lips are chapped but it’s so cold the chap stick is so hard it hurts to smear it on my lips Me: I know, that’s why I don…

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