sounds like a dumb question but what does this mean exactly…..
Does it mean like I won’t bother you in the future…or I won’t bother your anymore (meaning they probably had already bothered them) or is it unspecified?
8 Answers
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I will not annoy, or disturb you anymore.
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It may also mean, now that I am aware I’ve bothered you, I won’t do it again.
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further has a distance idea to it, and conversations are looked at as trips or journeys in a sense, they progress, move from thought to thought or comment to comment, so the (no) further is used to mean “this conversation stops here”. Note that even the word “here” has the idea of a place, not a time.
I suppose it is a metaphorical concept, if you want to be strict about it, but it is so common to talk about processes as roads being traveled that calling it metaphorical would be misleading. Start here, move along until you end up over there. There is no physical movement involved but we sure do talk about things as if there was.
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It depends on the context.
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Don’t expect to hear from them again. Unless they are flogging PPI claims.
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If it’s in a personal setting, it means they won’t be contacting you any more.
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The second one.
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I take it as a true statement. When someone says that they mean it.
That being said, don’t expect that person to come calling.