I read this in some one's blog where the person wrote the relation btw 'Nothing' and 'Don't know'. With the same title me too thought of writing about that related to my case!
People generally ask "Hey, sup?" to start with the conversation [as the think] but they never think that we are talking to them so freely so it means we are doing "NOTHING" and so we always try not to answer that cuz we know by this word the conversation gonna end and not start. But on a 2nd thought we got no other option except this. As soon as we say "Nothing, U tell", the conversation generally gets over! Hence a wrong word in dictionary for many-a-cases!
We can't really do anything with this word cuz itz even true with me, in my cases too, i used this word often cuz i generally don't do anything as imp. to answer him except nothing. so using this word ain't that wrong but generally most of the people think itz offensive to them! :/
The same is with "Don't Know". People generally ask those questions which we can't answer. Hence, we still got 2 reasons why we can't answer that:
1. We don't want to tell that thing to that person.
2. We in real don't know wat to answer cuz we nva thought of that.
Knowing the 2 reasons, people still don't get this thing and still go on asking things.
Like lemme share my example with you. Recently a very good frnd of mine, asked me why i don't sleep in night, why i can't sleep in night. After his 5-10 mins lecture, i realized that i've never thought of this question, I've nva asked this question to myself so yeah i was unable to answer him. I wasn't knowing the real reason behind this and so my frnd told me to think of it 1ce cuz he as well as i also do believe that there is a reason behind everything.
^ ^ An example to state that in my case No. 2 is applied i.e. We in real don't know what to answer cuz we nva thought of it! so I simply replied him "I dunno" cuz itz true that i've got no answer 4 it!
Again a so-called-wrong-word-for-many-cases. As i believe, after having that conversation with my frnd, One shud know the reasons / things so that we can clearly answer the other person. and for 1st reason, one shud be straight enough to tell the other person that "you don't wanna tell him/her ur stuff".
- Ruchi