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#2 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 14:00 pm Never mind: Never mind books, this is their true mania! |
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| I think you've lost something of the phrase |
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#3 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 14:35 pm Never mind: Never mind books, this is their true mania! |
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No, I wrote it exactly the way it was pronounced by a mothertongue speaker. It sounds strange to me as well, anyway! |
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Polly I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 14:59 pm Never mind: Never mind books, this is their true mania! |
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| But could you give one more additional sentences applying to this phrase?Maybe the context would be a bit clearer |
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#5 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 15:22 pm Never mind: Never mind books, this is their true mania! |
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Well, no, unfortunately I counldn't! :( As I said, I asked for help just because it was the first time that I happened to hear NEVER MIND in a context I can't understand at all... |
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Polly I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#6 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 15:51 pm Never mind |
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Polly, nice to read you again!
In this sentence:
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| Never mind books, this is their true mania! |
'never mind' is used to emphasize that, although someone is very interested in books, they like something else (we don't know what) even more. And this is their true mania, in other words,what they are really mad about.
You could also say it this way:
Books are nothing as compared to their true mania! |
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#7 (permalink) Sat Jun 03, 2006 13:14 pm Never mind: Never mind books, this is their true mania! |
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Dear Conchita, thank you very much for you precious help! Excuse me if I didn't write sooner, but I forgot my password and coulnd't log in... :oops: |
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Polly I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#8 (permalink) Sat Jun 03, 2006 13:19 pm Long break |
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Nice to hear from you after all this time, Polly!
We've missed you on the site. Hope you can drop by more often now! :) |
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