Yeah

Yeah [ jeə ] comes from English and is now the slang version of yes (ja) there . The first Old English documents (West Saxon gea and Anglish ge) led to the word originally spelled yea with the pronunciation [jɛi]. This word is by no means slang, for example it is traditionally still in use in the British House of Commons for exclamations of approval. The spelling yeah is used for the first time in 1905. Due to the global spread of Anglicisms , yeah is now understood and used in many languages.

The word found an early literary use in the Beatles title She loves you (1963). Paul McCartney's father is said to have insisted on replacing the yeah yeah yeah in it with yes yes yes , which seemed more worthy to him. This song went a long way towards popularizing the word. Since then, Yeah has been a frequent filler in the texts of Anglo-American pop and rock music, in France the word gave its name to the genre Yéyé , under which the beat-oriented French pop music of the 1960s is summarized.

For Walter Ulbricht was Yeah Beatles a prime example of Western Beat Music: Is it really true that we have nu copy any dirt that comes from the West? I think, comrades, with the monotony of je-je-je, and whatever it is called, yes, we should put an end to it. (1965 Announcement of the ban on Western beat music at the XIth Plenum of the Central Committee of the SED, alluding to the Beatles' Yeah Yeah Yeah , which was also the title of the first Beatles film.)

On September 18, 2009, the call "Yeah" was used in a flash mob on the sidelines of a speech by Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hamburg, when all statements by the speaker were accompanied by a "Yeah" from the group. The trigger was the addition of a felt pen to a Hamburg CDU election poster “The Chancellor is coming” with the inscription: “ And everyone like this:“ Yeaahh ” ”.

Web links

Original voice by Walter Ulbricht: Excerpt from the “yeahyeahyeah speech” as a wav file

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^ Cem Basman. And all like this: Yeaahh - The Flashmob in Hamburg, blog post in: Speech bubble, September 18, 2009 .
↑ Ole Reissmann. Flash mob meets Chancellor. Merkel in Hamburg - and everyone shouts “Yeaahh”. Spiegel Online September 18, 2009 .
↑ "Yeah" - the last resort against Merkel in: Süddeutsche .de, September 29, 2009, online , accessed on August 13, 2011

[1] Cem Basman. And all like this: Yeaahh - The Flashmob in Hamburg, blog post in: Speech bubble, September 18, 2009 .

[2] Ole Reissmann. Flash mob meets Chancellor. Merkel in Hamburg - and everyone shouts “Yeaahh”. Spiegel Online September 18, 2009 .

[3] "Yeah" - the last resort against Merkel in: Süddeutsche .de, September 29, 2009, online , accessed on August 13, 2011