She becomes excited when we are returning home. She wants to see her friends playing and then play with them. We learned, long ago, the inherent danger of telling her that her friends will be out, and discovering, all to late, that they are not there when we arrive. Therefore, when she begins asking if she will see Mya, or Sam, we respond with a strong, and definite, "Maybe."
Because of these replies, she has expanded this answer into the all too common, maybe they will be out there, or maybe they won't. But this is not what she says. She says,
"Maybe yes, maybe not."
Many people see the issue with this response. The correct combination would be yes and no. But why, then, is her response yes or not? The answer is simple. It is all in the pronunciation.
She does not say yes.
She says yet.
"Maybe yet, maybe not."
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