Timeline for What does the word "just" mean in this context?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
33 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2020 at 4:28 | comment | added | Elby Cloud | Wanted to point out that this is pretty funny. "Do not disturb" is like a stop sign, requiring no discussion. It's the thing you put on your door handle when you don't want maid service. It's a setting on your phone when you don't want calls. So adding "Just Don't" is like fending off an argument from someone not clever enough to get it the first time. Kind of like a Stop sign that has (Really) or (I mean it) underneath it. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 22:24 | comment | added | Kevin | @Acccumulation Bear in mind someone who is still learning English might not be familiar with all of the rules for things like imperatives, which I assume do not work the same in every language. Implied nouns can make any language more difficult to understand; see e.g. japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/65825/… | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 22:05 | comment | added | shawnt00 | "Just don't" is often something you'd hear say when somebody is about to offer and excuse or explanation or argument that you don't even want to hear. You interrupt them with an exasperated "just don't" to shut down the whole thing. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 20:17 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | In this case, the word "just" means "That's all there is to it" as in "Do not disturb. That's all there is to it. Don't." | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 6:45 | comment | added | Acccumulation | @Kevin Imperatives are generally considered valid sentences in their own right. Since imperatives always apply to the audience, no subject is needed. So simply having a nontransitive verb in the imperative is a complete sentence. There is an argument that there is an implied "me", but other than that, it's a complete sentence. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 6:16 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 39 characters in body
|
| Jul 16, 2020 at 0:53 | comment | added | Kevin | It's worth noting that these are sentence fragments with many implied words. The full meaning, with implied words in parentheses, could be given as "(I demand that you) do not disturb (me). (I demand that you) just don't (disturb me)." | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 21:29 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
improved tags, formatting; cropped and rotated OP's image.
|
| Jul 15, 2020 at 18:56 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jul 15, 2020 at 14:12 | history | suggested | Num Lock | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarification in title, added tag
|
| Jul 15, 2020 at 9:10 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Jul 15, 2020 at 14:12 | |||||
| Jul 15, 2020 at 8:44 | answer | added | Ruadhan2300 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 19:49 | answer | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 19:31 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
[Edit removed during grace period]
|
| Jul 14, 2020 at 17:20 | answer | added | SovereignSun | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 15:26 | answer | added | George | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 15:19 | vote | accept | mbmoosavi | ||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 19:33 | |||||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 15:08 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 68 characters in body
|
| Jul 14, 2020 at 15:02 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 68 characters in body
|
| Jul 14, 2020 at 14:51 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jul 19, 2020 at 3:07 | |||||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:06 | answer | added | Ross Presser | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 9:30 | answer | added | user19876 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 9:02 | vote | accept | mbmoosavi | ||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 9:02 | |||||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 8:49 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 126 characters in body
|
| Jul 14, 2020 at 5:05 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 1:09 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 0:26 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited title
|
| Jul 14, 2020 at 0:17 | history | edited | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 1 character in body
|
| Jul 14, 2020 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1282827224811540480 | ||
| Jul 13, 2020 at 22:16 | answer | added | Sophie Swett | timeline score: 58 | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 21:11 | answer | added | Dean F. | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 21:05 | review | First posts | |||
| Jul 13, 2020 at 23:56 | |||||
| Jul 13, 2020 at 20:58 | history | asked | mbmoosavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |