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As a non-native English speaker "No, Totally" doesn't sound natural at all to me ("Yes, Totally" sounds better and makes way more sense).

I only understood what the author was really talking about when he introduced other examples (like to dust).



>As a non-native English speaker "No, Totally" doesn't sound natural at all to me

I'm a native English speaker and "No, Totally" doesn't sound at all natural to me either.


Agreed. Even with my British flair for using double negatives for cautious agreement, "no, totally" sounds like a particularly awkward Americanism.


Leah Dunham doesn't seem natural to me.




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