Yeah no yeah there’s definitely a buncha folks that talk like that out there, alright.
Have you seen any Charlie Berens stuff on Youtube?
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I haven’t, but I’ve got it on the queue now!
I’m so confused. 
Do I need to spend a summer in Minnesota so I can become fluent?
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No yeah no, you’ll be just fine as long as you bring something with cheese and mayo.
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I had to cheat to figure out if you were agreeing or disagreeing. I learned a whole other language as a teenager, why is Midwestern so hard??? 
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Because it’s rude to every say just “no” or ever disagree outright. If you catch one of us feeling frisky, we might look at your shoes when we talk instead of our own.
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And a hotdish, right? I’m quicker to learn the culinary customs than the language, it seems.
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As a midwesterner, it is blowing my mind that there are people who don’t understand these phrases.
(I mean, non-native speakers, sure. But in my mind everyone knows that “yeah, no” is the polite, empathizing way to say “no”)
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I’ve definitely heard people here (Oregon/Washington) use especially that one.
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I also make heavy use of “ope”.
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Another Midwesternism is this, where first no could be yes, could be no, but second no is a definite no.
“Do you want the last ____?”
“No”
“Are you sure?”
“No, I’m good”
But if they really wanted it, they’d be horrified if the person proceeds to eat the thing after the first no. Because they’re supposed to ask again, and only then can you say yes, you really do want it.
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It’s funny when I read that, I read it differently. I do say yeah no, but it’s not polite when I say it. Usually sarcastic, as in “yeahhhhhh NO, I’m not doing that.” I guess tone is everything, and also I’m a New Englander so most everything we say is sarcastic.
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I was looking at inflatable t rex costumes on Amazon and the seller offered this as a reason to buy the product:
- 【High Fashion】 - It’s been said that everyone needs a tuxedo, but in today’s world, you’ll probably get more use out of a T-rex suit than a dinner jacket.
I can’t disagree.
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This right here is why when I was a kid at Thanksgiving us cousins would say “My parents just started saying goodbye, so I’ve got next.” cause you could definitely get in a round of Mario Kart or whatever before there was any danger of actually leaving.
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I thought it was three times but it’s been a while since I’ve been around my midwestern relatives. Although my Wisconsin-born-and-raised aunt definitely had a codeword or Look or something with my uncle when she was tired of my grandma (her MIL) asking if she was sure, really sure she didn’t want sugar/margarine/whatever?
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BAHAHAHA
…I have about 50 photos in my phone of one year’s treats in the breakroom and “the last one” that gets first halved, then quartered, then left for housekeeping to throw away 
- this was by far the weirdest custom to me when I first moved here!
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Worth nothing that there are numerous sub-regionalisms too. Even just in my state I notice differences between WI natives, especially down here in my corner, the MN dialect, and the yooper dialect (yoopers, I’m convinced, are what Canadian stereotypes are actually based on)
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So people in the midwest talk like Aussies?
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