Talk:never mind

never you mind
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
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
I think one might be able to find true verb usage in more forms with meanings like:
 * 1) to ignore.
 * 2) 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)