Expressions of agreement:

Someone says something in conversation you agree with. What are expressions of agreement you use or have heard used?

I've heard many here in the country (i.e., farmland) say, "You got that right!" and even "You got that!"

Some used to say, "Right on!"

Some repeat what you've said and agree by repeating what you've said, but by inserting the adverb very somewhere in your sentence:

You -- "These hot pretzels are good."

The Other -- "They are very good."

Another -- "You got that!"

Still Another -- "Right on!"

And Still Another -- "You got that right!"


What are some other expressions of agreement? I'd be interested in reading here the levels of agreement indicated by the terms of agreement. For instance, if someone agreed by saying, "I suppose," a bit a doubt would be included in this conditional sort of agreement.

Anyway, thanks for any thoughts here about agreement.

Best regards,
WW

P.S. Personal pet peeve: It annoys me when people insert the word "very" to what someone has said. I get more annoyed with myself, however, for becoming annoyed than I do at the person who upped the ante by adding the word very.

Agreement:

Totally
You betcha
Better believe it (ok i don't use that one, but i've heard it)
Truly... and other one-worders.


alexis

An old favorite from my Navy days

You fuckin' A

Sho' nuff!
You ain't kiddin'
Ain't that the truth!
Damn straight!
You can say that again
Mmm-hmm...
I hear you


Then there's the hilarious movie "Airplane," in which two guys are speaking "jive," with subtitles in standard English. At one point one guys says "sheeeeeeeeeet" and the subtitle says "How true. How true."

I've been using "Indeed" and "Evidently" a lot recently.

It annoys me when people insert the word "very" to what someone has said. I get more annoyed with myself, however, for becoming annoyed than I do at the person who upped the ante by adding the word very.

Amen!

You got it, Pontiac!
No kidding (not said snarkily, but agreeing wholeheartedly; emphasis on No)
Duh! (said snarkily after an obvious statement)
Fair enough (to concede a point)
Way! (as opposed to No way!)
fur shur
in spades
yes

There was the college prof who announced to his class that, while it was possible to use two negatives to create a positive, it was impossible to use two positives to create a negative. A voice from the back of the classroom responded, "Yeah, sure!"

Heard in teen talk from next door neighbor's teens when expressing agreement :

Get outa' town!
Shut *UP!
Rad! (as in radical)
... and one of my very own : You can put *that in the book!

to some really obvious statements.. (standing in a torrent, and someone says "Oh its raining." ) i tend all too often lately to say, "ya think?"

if some one asks for confirmation-- i am likely to say "sound ok, by me"
and if i am feel foxy (not good looking foxy, but wild and daring foxy--like foxy grapes..) and want to agree, i might say.. "everything's copacetic!"

NYC (Bronx): Fuhgeddaboudit!

(If you don't believe me, go rent "Analyze This" with Billy Crystal and Robert deNiro).

Oh, quite.

Bingley

You don't say?

Oy!

Yep!
No sh*t Sherlock!
Rumor has it.
Apparently.
That what I'm sayin'.
What s/he said.
Now you're talkin'.
Dude!
Aye, aye captain.
Zactly!

ditto!

Yes, well...

Expressions of agreement: Cool!

Three episodes:

(1) Flash, a spaced-out, aging beatnik was speeding me and two chicks down Interstate 65 enroute to Panama City, when from the back seat, I noticed that my door wasn't completely closed. I slammed it shut. Flash, a most cool but aging beatnik, smiled and asked, "Crazy. Who got in?

(2) Caleneous Jones, an aging blackman from near York, Alabama, drove a truck for Hall Motor Express. I, by virtue of my whiteness and my relationship to Mister Hall, was his nineteen-year-old supervisor. Caldonia, as he was called, was married to a school teacher of considerable dimensions, that is, six feet tall and over three hundred pounds. Cal called her "Miss Mam". Cal and I became good friends- drinking buddies, both of us had a love of life beyond that which, at that time, was considered to be circumspect.
Cal and Miss Mam had twelve children. Yet Cal forever had a smile on his face. "How 'bout tricks, Cal" we would say.
"Everything's copacetic." Cal would always answer.

Except one morning. Cal had a girlfriend that lived in a shotgun house (called "shotgun" because all the rooms are aligned one behind each other like in a single barrel shotgun) next door to the loading dock. Late one afternoon Big Ruth (Miss Mam) caught skinny Cal visiting Misses Rose. Miss Mam Ruth was knocking at the front door so Cal ran to the back door where he was met by four of his oldest and biggest boys, who grabbed Cal and exclaimed "We got him, Mama, we got daddy."

The next morning Cal was late for work. But still I smiled and said, "Morning, Caleneous, How's tricks?

Sometimes great planets and mortal men re-align, and that morning, for the first time ever, Cal didn't answer " everything's copacetic". He just sighed and shook his head and walked away.

(3) On third thought, why should I use this forum to embarrass my own self?

All over ther German-speaking area, there is a fashion now of answering "Das ist richtig.." (That is correct) - probably under the influence of some "communication scientist/counselor". Yet you can be sure there is an aber (but) lurking in the next sentence.

Would you like the German rights for yeahbut®, Werner? ;)

Would you like the German rights for yeahbut®, Werner?
Not really, I am of the type who rather prefer people saying "Nobut"

the German rights for yeahbut®

prefer people saying "Nobut"

Yeahbut® the former is much more melifluous auf deutsch

Jaaber vs. neinaber

Und sagt man ,,Das ist aber richtig''?

Oh aye

aye 'appen

s'right


the Duncster

Then there's the one I never heard till I got to Upstate New York. So don't I. Recent research on another matter serendipitously uncovered the fact that it is considered a New England regionalism.

Faldage,

In NY, if you agree with someone, you could say, "So don't I," and would generally be understood to be in agreement? It sounds like a teenaged thing--?? If it's been around for a while, I'll try it out on some of our yankee invaders who teach here with me at Spring Run.

Best regards,
WW

from both black and white

PBS (USn public television) ran a series some many years ago The Story of English. In the epsode entitled Black on White they chronicled the development of Black English from its roots in West African languages and its effect on White English with a special section on the influences of Black English on Upper Class Southern White English.

So don't I is an established usage of older folks around here and not recent youthful slang. Not so common that the lovely AnnaS has heard it yet but certainly not entirely unknown. I suspect, given the AHD usage note cited above, from folks from New England, but I don't remember having heard it while in Boston.

Alternatively --- 'me not either'

that's what my mother (whose first language isn't English) says - I love it (and her!)

Am I seeing this right? No one mentioned, "you bet your sweet a**!" ?

And interesting, Silk, how far those Portuguese sailors travelled. I knew I'd heard your "pickanninnies" before, and it was when I was in Papua New Guinea.

pikinini

Pacific Pidgin English: *pikinini. The ultimate origin is with Portuguese ‘pequeninho’; it came to to Pacific Pidgin English from earlier pidgins (‘Atlantic Pidgin’ etc) carried round the world by sailors.

1. Noun form
Kind of person: a baby, a child, son, daughter, niece, nephew, descendant, adopted child, familiar term of address for any younger person
pikinini man a son
pikinini meri a daughter
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V227152E

Dispela meri imus go na mekim wok nau..
I've got to go do some work now!