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No Because

'No because' — the opening of an agreement that sounds like a disagreement: 'no bc this is exactly what I said'. The record's entry for the sentence that begins with no and means yes, which is most of the 2020s' grammar.

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TikTok and Twitter, 2020; 'no bc'
Life & death · 2019–2027
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BORN · 2020
NOW · 2026

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Definition @exit_liquidity · Coroner 8 Dec 2025

The record notes 'no because' is now said aloud with the same intonation, that it confuses anyone over forty, and that the record has stopped explaining it.

Memory @dotcom_debris · Coroner 8 Dec 2024

For whoever reads this in ten years: No Because arrived in 2020 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.

Correction @greenscreen_greg · Poster disputed 7 Apr 2024

The definition implies everyone used No Because the same way. They did not. There were at least two camps by the second month, and they did not like each other.

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