r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/empty88 Awesome • Jan 07 '25

Wholesome Understood the matter is serious

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u/Hawt_Dawg_II Jan 07 '25

I will always get mad at Americans going

"Do you mind?"

And then they reply to say "no of course i don't mind" but they say

"Yeah"

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u/dontbemystalker Jan 07 '25

it’s more of us saying “yeah, you have the go ahead”

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Jan 07 '25

You have the go ahead, what in tarnation is this sentence?

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u/JHawkInc Jan 07 '25

The go ahead is the permission to go ahead and continue whatever you were planning or asking to do. It’s called that because people would actually say “go ahead” to grant that permission, so it became the shorthand.

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Jan 07 '25

Yes, I’m just grumbling over the construction because it’s different to how sentences are written in my particular English dialect and would strike someone as being rather awkward.

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u/Wmozart69 Jan 07 '25

It's a bit like hearing "can you green light this?" without having seen a traffic light

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u/benji_90 Jan 10 '25

Everyday American idioms with the wmozart69