This Chart Explaining ‘What Americans Say vs What They Mean’ Is So Accurate That I Feel Attacked

• By Asad Tipu
• January 5, 2018
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What we say and what we mean are very different things.

Depending on where you’re from, there are certain ways to say certain things. Like if you want to say “Good”, you can say “Awesome”, “Fabulous,” or “Amazing,” and they’d all mean the same thing.

How are you doing?

Awesome. Fabulous. Amazing.

But if someone says fine, then you’re not really fine.

Tyler Oakley tweeted this helpful chart to decode what you’re saying, and I take just one lesson. Americans are sarcastic people.

this is too real pic.twitter.com/geic4V1gaJ

— tyler oakley (@tyleroakley) January 3, 2018

The reaction was just as hilarious as the chart.

THIS IS AMAZING

— Tessa Violet (@TessaViolet) January 3, 2018

This list is awesome or at least fabulous… https://t.co/lnDAdhM9mf

— Nick Mehta (@nrmehta) January 4, 2018

Nothing you say is safe anymore.

I don't have a word to describe what this is because he made me insecure about using any of them

— clara-ish (@below_eye_level) January 3, 2018

I always found it so weird that for Americans everything is automatically "the best thing ever" when they actually just think it was kinda nice

— cinnamon girl (@ZoeandFleur) January 4, 2018

Miscommunication makes sense now.

this is why understanding american people is hard sometimes

— ciara (@mutedoakley) January 3, 2018

I am just realizing how sarcastic we really are

— yessir (@m1acdonnel) January 4, 2018

People had other suggestions for the chart.

Epic = Above Average

— brian t silcott (@btsilcott) January 4, 2018

I studied teaching English in Germany for a tad bit (I'm American) and I did a presentation on American Customs with a group of individuals. One was from Malaysia who had studied in the US. It bothered her so much that when people said "We'll get together soon," they didn't. 😟

— Theoretically Knowledgeable (@Theoreticallyyy) January 4, 2018