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I'm an American living in Australia and I have have a question

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I'm an American living in Australia and I have have a question for the Australians on this board. Why do you always precede 'no' or 'nah' with a 'yeah' first?

Example

>Hey X are you coming along this afternoon?
>Oh yeah nah I can't make it

Sometimes the opposite is done too

>Oh nah yeah I'll be there

And sometimes it gets really confusing when you add multiple yeahs and nahs in there

>Oh yeah nah yeah nah yeah mate, nah yeah I won't be there, sorry mate

Why do you do this? It makes it so hard understanding whether you mean yes or no and I can't tell if I'm just being made fun of
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there is a name for it but i forgot it's cultural
basically it's an opener for their frustration or agreement
there were cheatsheet list a few months ago

yea nah
nah yea
yea...nah
nah...yea etc
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>>69727109
>seppo can't understand basic lingo
what a fucking surprise, Hank.
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>>69727109
>yeah nah
you expect me to give an affirmative answer and I understand that but I have to give a negative answer

>nah yeah
same as above but opposite
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>>69727109
>yeah nah
Acknowledged but no.
or
Yeah, right.

>nah yeah
What? Oh wait! Yes.
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>>69727109
we say "yeah no" where i live
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yeah nah yeah nah nah yeah it's just you fucken yank cunce cant understand a fucken word ay? fucken yeah nah fuck oath
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>>69727109
>>69727277
>>69727342
>>69728459
>>69728551

Pipe down lads
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That seems really stupid.
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>>69728623
>That seems really stupid

so is losing a war to the Vietnamese but that didn't stop you
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>>69728643
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>>69728643
Says the country that lost to birds.
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>>69728815
Shit meme
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>>69728551
fookin strewth m8. properly embarrassed here ngl
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>>69728944
>American "humour"
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>>69728815
Nah mate we're like Germany: It was just failed pest control.
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>>69728981
Oi, you fucked up in the head or something? stop getting your head off you tosser. proper aussie here, m8, strewth
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I'm moving to Australia next month for schools and worried about the apparent insistence on refusing to talk like human fucking beings. Fucking prisoners.
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>>69730097
Just speak Mandarin; they're all chinks too.
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>>69729016
>awaits the Diary of Emu Francis
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>>69727109
It's pretty straight-forward.
Yeah nah - I understand the implications of your request, and acknowledge it. However I must decline.
Nah yeah - I don't really understand the implications of your request, though I'll agree and go along wit hit anyway.

Sometimes it's "the implications of your request" but rather like this
>>69727342

and sometimes it can just be conversation filler and pacing
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>>69731089
*it's not
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>>69727109
>We literally do the same.

t. gaijin
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>>69727109
What the fuck are you on about, North Americans do the same thing - "Yeah, no".
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>>69731089
This is the correct answer
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