Talk:never mind
Latest comment: 1 year ago by DCDuring in topic Verb
Is never you mind a synonym? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:16, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, slightly different "feeling" to it that's hard to translate. Equinox ◑ 18:33, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- "hard to translate" - I think of "never you mind" with "mind" being used as a verb, so it is saying to not use your mind on something. --User123o987name (talk) 21:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
alt[edit]
Is never-mind an alternative form of "never mind"? I searched "never-mind" at Wikisource and found about 5,700 results.
Counts:
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mikado/Act_I/Part_Va https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_a_Savoyard/They%27ll_None_of_Them_be_Missed https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ASongs_of_a_Savoyard.djvu/48
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_Life_and_Letters
- Firefox Browser suggests "never-mind" as a spelling correction to "nevermind".
Doesn't count:
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cricket_(Hutchinson)/Chapter_4 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ACricket_(Hutchinson%2C_1903).djvu/152
--User123o987name (talk) 21:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Verb[edit]
I think one might be able to find true verb usage in more forms with meanings like:
- to ignore.
- to tell (someone) never mind.
The ignore sense is hard to distinguish from never + mind, but seems to exist in the minds of some authors., as:
- "How do you mean to put her off?" asked La Hire.
- "Simply by never minding her."
- "I try to […] keep on never minding her, but its no use, […] "
The "tell" sense can be found in examples like "The other interruptions were aloud to Kate; but she kept never minding him, and finished what she had to say." Though I suppose this could also be the "ignore" sense. DCDuring (talk) 18:31, 27 November 2022 (UTC)