Secondhand Car Problems

ontheroad1970

frost500 said:

Sorry george, I am confused?

I think George is drawing your attention to a double negative

George_Michael

frost500 said:

Sorry george, I am confused?

If something is no longer nothing to do with someone, then that means that it is to do with them due to the use of double negatives.
"no longer absolutely nothing to do with them at all" is the opposite of  "it is nothing to do with them".

sweetsand

George_Michael said:

frost500 said:

Sorry george, I am confused?

If something is no longer nothing to do with someone, then that means that it is to do with them due to the use of double negatives.
"no longer absolutely nothing to do with them at all" is the opposite of  "it is nothing to do with them".

Hey
Both statements come to the same result, they now have nothing to do with it.
HTH

ontheroad1970

sweetsand said:

George_Michael said:

frost500 said:

Sorry george, I am confused?

If something is no longer nothing to do with someone, then that means that it is to do with them due to the use of double negatives.
"no longer absolutely nothing to do with them at all" is the opposite of  "it is nothing to do with them".

Hey
Both statements come to the same result, they now have nothing to do with it.
HTH

Strictly no, they don't.  

For example:

1/ I have no problems with buying a car at an auction

2/ I don't have no problems with buying a car at an auction.

The result is the opposite of each other.  

Yes, we will usually know what is intended by the context around the erroneous statement.  It is, however quite a statement as to how bad written and spoken English has become.

foxy-stoat

frost500 said:

Sorry george, I am confused?

Don't be confused, you get people on here posting stuff that is nothing to do with the OP's question, only to correct others.

Garage will offer no assistance with the OP's issue, even if it was £2,500 for a new gearbox - they will have a job to prove that the fault was there at the time of purchase.  If we knew what the issue was then maybe the folk on here will help.

Homer_home

Pat366 said:

Hello
i bought a car from CarBase ten months ago, which came with a three month warranty only. We bought the car for 6.5K in cash and have just been presented with a 2.5K garage bill. Do we have any standing?

tia 

Why do ops expect to get a detailed response to such a short post which tells you nothing

So in the same vein the answer to the ops question is nope

JamoLew

ontheroad1970 said:

sweetsand said:

George_Michael said:

frost500 said:

Sorry george, I am confused?

If something is no longer nothing to do with someone, then that means that it is to do with them due to the use of double negatives.
"no longer absolutely nothing to do with them at all" is the opposite of  "it is nothing to do with them".

Hey
Both statements come to the same result, they now have nothing to do with it.
HTH

Strictly no, they don't.  

For example:

1/ I have no problems with buying a car at an auction

2/ I don't have no problems with buying a car at an auction.

The result is the opposite of each other.  

Yes, we will usually know what is intended by the context around the erroneous statement.  It is, however quite a statement as to how bad written and spoken English has become.

Agreed - it's bad enough replacing one perfectly good word for a totally unrelated other.
But to replace it with one that totally reverses the context of the sentence takes some "genius"

Scrapit

Unnecessary pedantry. Thats what this forum does best.

ToxicWomble

Yet it’s fine to make a post criticising someone for being pedantic ( being 100% correct)
Slightly ironic don’t you think

ontheroad1970

ToxicWomble said:

Yet it’s fine to make a post criticising someone for being pedantic ( being 100% correct)
Slightly ironic don’t you think

Like rain on your wedding day...

or from  the same song, most appropriate for this forum:

"good advice, that you just didn't take"