american english - Origin of "Yes" joke to a question - English ...
2019年7月8日 · My impression is that the whole idea behind this "meme" or "joke" is that you answer a question of quantity or measurement with a binary answer: yes/no (or '1'/'0' in computers) meaning that the person being asked the question wants absolutely a hundred percent of what they are being asked about and nothing less than 100%.
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2019年6月16日 · Again, Op's meme is about the interpretation of the one asking the question, not about the answer being a boolean where its not supposed to be one. Funny or not, the joke is that the one asking the question runs with it, not that the answer is a practical non answer.
etymology - What is the origin of 'yes siree!'? - English Language ...
Etymology: < yes adv. + siree, variant of sorry n.2. With an earliest quotation from 1846: ‘Will you take this man to be your lawful husband?’ said the Justice; to which she responded with breathless haste, ‘Yes, sir-ee’. It says "no siree" came first: Etymology: < no adv.2 + siree, variant of sorry n.2 Compare slightly later yes siree int.
Idioms or phrases to answer to obvious (yes) questions?
2020年6月23日 · Defined by folklorist Charles Clay Doyle as “stock questions with glaringly obvious yes or no answers. The function of each such question is to respond derisively to a prior query, itself calling for a yes or no answer so as to suggest that the answer to the original query is too obvious to be worth proffering seriously.”
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2024年12月2日 · No it's not a meme song because it's popular. Lots of popular songs aren't meme songs. It has the added distinction of being a meme song because of all the yearly discussions/debates about it. I think this the 3rd thread so far in the last couple of months.
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Is there an English idiom for 'your silence implies your consent'?
I'll take that as a 'yes' then. I don't hear any No's. The first is different, since you could also use it if an answer was given, but was not sufficiently clear. The second is different since it is much weaker, it is tacitly agreed that you didn't agree, but you also didn't disasgree. Is there any idiom for your silence implies your consent?
word choice - Would the slang version, yessir, of yes, sir, be …
2014年12月23日 · I tend to think that it would be, as the whole point of saying yes, sir, in the first place, is to show respect. So it would stand to reason that using the slang version, yessir, that logically it makes sense that it would be, if not derogatory, offensive or …
Answering a multiple choice question with "yes"
2015年10月16日 · If the answer (yes or no) is intentionally ambiguous, exploiting ambiguity describes the act of knowingly making such an answer to what is intended to be a multiple choice question. If the answer (yes or no) is unintentionally or inadvertently ambiguous, containing or involving ambiguity describes the act of unknowingly making such an answer.
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2024年11月22日 · That's what the meme actually means. But without context and people aren't usually bringing the context with the question as it's the game of telephone and brevity. It gets reduced down into that basic straightforward pointed joke. Isn't part of the original meme "What is your Roman Empire?" Aka what do you get hyper fixated on/deep dive into?