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in a well actually posted:there’s a meme about American idioms vs English vs Germans (iirc?) that lays out the various levels of enthusiasm where “that’s okay” is earth shattering endorsement from one but extremely negative from the other sometimes my wife will ask me if i want to do something, and i'll say "sure" instead of "yes", and somehow she takes that to mean "emphatically no"
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echinopsis posted:sometimes sure comes across as “I don’t really want to but sure I guess we can” i guess it's this. i probably say "sure" more often when she asks me things like if i can take out the trash, or go to work, or put pants on
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