# Yanno, yanno pisses me off! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853 "2006-02-03T16:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/21 "2006-02-03T19:50:49Z")
Yea, I can’t stan’ any viz music. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/22 "2006-02-03T23:56:41Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > **Yeah, but** he writes some great nonoffensive soft rock. That’s spelled “Yabbut.” ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/23 "2006-02-04T06:40:22Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I guess I don’t see the value in being deliberately annoying to others. 😕 Because it’s just a word. I don’t know why people get a bug up their butt about a legitimate dialectal feature, especially linguists. It’s part of my dialect, one which I was embarrassed of at first blush, but then took pride in when I found out it annoyed the crap out of some people. I guess I’m just a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/24 "2006-02-04T06:43:07Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I guess I don’t see the value in being deliberately annoying to others. 😕 I don’t know. When someone can write three condescending paragraphs over such a trivial irritant, it’s sort of hard to resist. ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/25 "2006-02-04T06:43:51Z")
I used to say sammich, as in, “may I please have a chicken sammich?” But now I say sammy, as in “ham sammy.” ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/26 "2006-02-04T09:14:44Z")
ROTFLMAO ur teh funy ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/27 "2006-02-04T09:48:52Z")
In Australia we are too sophisticated to use sammich. They have long been sangers here. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/28 "2006-02-04T09:50:54Z")
Although I do remember when I was a kid some people called them samboes. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/29 "2006-02-04T16:47:44Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > When someone can write three condescending paragraphs over such a trivial irritant, it’s sort of hard to resist. Especially when that same someone had [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7062566&postcount=38) to say about somebody else’s post. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/30 "2006-02-04T17:07:08Z")
I laugh at words like “sammich”, “edumacate”, and “li-berry”. If I wasn’t such a conformist, I would integrate them into my formal speech. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/31 "2006-02-04T17:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > In Australia we are too sophisticated to use sammich. They have long been sangers here. Where I’m from, they’re “buttys”. “Aw, mam, gi’ us a chicken butty will ya, ta?” ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/32 "2006-02-04T19:56:22Z")
This may be the perfect time to introduce my own personal favorite alternate spelling: supposably. Please feel free to write “supposably” instead of “supposedly” from now on. It is a perfectly valid variant, according to the logic that “nucular” is a valid pronunciation of “nuclear” because it rhymes with “muscular,” and “nuclear” is too hard to say. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/33 "2006-02-04T20:21:22Z")
In my formative years in England we called 'em “sarnies.” From the title of the thread I thought the OP was going off on a poster. Now I’m educated as to what “yanno” is supposed to mean… well, I’m aghast. I could understand “ya-no” but “yanno” not only sounds fucking idiotic, it’s not even pronounced “ya know.” The double consonant means that it’s pronounced “yan-no.” Not “ya-no.” Which makes people who use this convention slobbering, mouth-breathing troglodytes who probably have tribal armband tattoos and a cartoon Calvin pissing on a Ford/Chevy symbol on the back of their ugly-assed ozone-layer destroying SUV. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/34 "2006-02-04T20:30:50Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I guess I don’t see the value in being deliberately annoying to others. 😕 :eek: :eek: Are your pants actually on fire? :eek: Seriously. Actually in flames? :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/35 "2006-02-04T20:32:32Z")
> [@liberty3701](#): > > Because it’s just a word. I don’t know why people get a bug up their butt about a legitimate dialectal feature, especially linguists. It’s part of my dialect, one which I was embarrassed of at first blush, but then took pride in when I found out it annoyed the crap out of some people. > > I guess I’m just a bitch. You’re being a bit of one right now. As I explained in my last post, most of the people using it on the internet are not using a “legitimate dialectual feature”. They’re using a cutesy affectation. Why do I have to pretend that it’s any different? And when someone spends three weeks on vacation in England and comes back with an accent, do I have to pretend that that’s “legitimate” as well? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853/36 "2006-02-05T14:35:22Z")
I actually thought this thread was going to be about Yanni and the OP had his name wrong, or something. I’ve never seen anyone write “yanno” before, but if I saw it I would want to slap the person who used it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yanno-yanno-pisses-me-off/342853.md?page=1)