Please explain the phrase YeahNo

Rocker

YeahNo.  Is it Yes or No.

Very much is use by younger people.

Gulliver

In the school I teach at it means No

Generally used to mean 'Yeah, I understand you but no."

ftumch

Damn youz old bruv innit 

Sporky

It can be either.

It is akin to "erm" or clearing one's throat.

stickyfiddle

It means "I'm listening, but no". 

See also "sorry, not sorry"

fnpt

Hertz32

It means No, never come across anyone using it as yeah. 

scrumhalf

Andrew Strauss used to start too many answers to questions with "yeah-no" when he was ENgland captain.

It just seems to me to be one stage on from using "you know" ten times a second.

JezWynd

It's often used as a beat, while the speaker engages their thinking tackle to address the actual question. Actually.

Clarky

YeahNah is an errrrrmmmmm alternative
it is a pause window to provide the person in question with a little extra thinking time to put the words together for whatever it is they are going to say..

YeahNah is often not long enough

stickyfiddle

I think context is everything. Either it's a stalling thing, equivalent to "err" before giving a proper answer. 


Or.. it's "yeaaaah..no" as a response in itself, which means no in a vaguely sarcastic tone.

octatonic

Also 'Wassup' means hello.

Clarky

octatonic said:

Also 'Wassup' means hello.

I've been told that "show us yer tits" can also mean hello, but with more emphasis
that said, I've never found the conversation from that point on to go particularly well..
maybe I should stop using it and try something else instead.. 

Sporky

octatonic said:

Also 'Wassup' means hello.

And "Aight" isn't pronounced "Ay-iggit".

hobbio

It'd work on me.

ennspek

Sarcastic yeah followed by emphatic no.

equalsql

It's just someone who can't say the letter 'L' trying to say 'yellow'

strumjoughlamps

It's a shorter way to say 'yeah that is never going to happen'

Mkjackary

Usually just filler, similar to stuttering or saying "er"

Or it could mean an abbreviated version of "yeah, but no" commonly used by chavs. In English this phrase means "I understand you, but respectfully disagree".

Sporky

I was wondering yesterday if it might also be "You know" in a regional accent. "Yer know?"

This, however, is still in line with the start-of-sentence-delimiter model.

Clarky

Sporky said:

I was wondering yesterday if it might also be "You know" in a regional accent. "Yer know?"

This, however, is still in line with the start-of-sentence-delimiter model.

can also be used at the end of a sentence for punctuation

as can 'a' in Canada and Queensland