Yeah No. No Yeah.

I’ve noticed a verbal tick in society when people are answering a question. It’s as if the speed of input is too fast, so people attempt to speed up their output, but their brains haven’t figured out whether they’re using the negative sentence construction (“No, I’m not ready for that.”) or the positive sentence construction (“Yea, I’m not sure I’m ready for that.”), and so they waffle at the beginning.

Although I’m sure there is some psychological explanation for this, it seems more prevalent across younger (< 50 years old) age groups.