I suspect you can grasp a big important chunk of my personality, and maybe what's specifically Midwestern about it, if I tell you one fact:
Both the expressions "Yeah, no" and "No, yeah" make *perfect* sense to me.
@zebratron2084 What's specifically midwestern about them, if I can ask? They make perfect sense to me and I've never lived anywhere but the coasts.
@Soreth I have no idea. :D I have just vaguely heard they are regional and I believe I've heard them associated with Midwest/Great Lakes?
Now you've got me questioning my memory, time for a quick infodive. :>
@Soreth Yeah, no, it is a trope! :D But I do feel ya -- I have a few oddities in my/my family's vocabulary that do NOT match the regional maps or stereotypes at all... (Like why did I already feel so comfortable with "y'all" long before I headed south?)
https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1119243533154648066?lang=en
@zebratron2084 Might be a Scandahoovian descent thing? Would make sense why it's present in Seattle.
@Soreth That would NOT surprise me at all. Ohio doesn't have a ton of Scandinavians, but we don't have none, and we do get a lot of linguistic influence come down from the north eh... :>
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(1:34 in this video for the Aussie version of this)
@Phorm Thanks for that, I've been on a huge Aussie comedy tear lately!
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meaning on the 2nd word for both?