Everyone used it as a kid when questioned by a parent. Most of the time you were up to no good or someplace you weren't allowed to go. As adults, we use it to shortly explain that we have been at home or work doing absolutely nothing of a productive or exciting nature. But we are always some where, never nowhere.
"She came out of nowhere." - No. She came from somewhere, you just didn't see where she came from.
"Came from nowhere to win." - Not even close. The pronoun in question came from their seed in the bracket, or from behind to win.
"Nowhere to be found." - Nope, its just in the place you forgot to look.
"Lead to nowhere." - Egh! Wrong again. It leads to the middle of a field, forest, desert. I'm sure it has a name, you just don't know it.
"Miles from nowhere." - You are always miles from somewhere. I'm 13 miles from Uptown Charlotte. I'm a mile from Lake Norman. I'm 246 miles from my home city of Charleston, WV.
"Nowhere near enough." Sorry, but not close/near enough would work. You can't be 'nowhere' near enough. You always have something towards enough, even when you have nothing.
"Where have you been?" "Nowhere." - What? You were somewhere, work, apartment, pool, in bed, in the bathroom, on the couch, at Starbucks/Ben & Jerry's/Harris Teeter/bar. You are always somewhere!
Even when you say you are in the middle of Nowhere, you are in the middle of what ever region you are exploring. If you go into the woods in West Virginia, you are in the middle of the woods in WV, not nowhere.
Again, I state, nowhere is an excuse for not knowing or wanting to tell.
2 comments:
are you the grammer police now LOL
Nope. Grammar would mean I correct sentence structure. I'm simply stating that 'nowhere' is a useless word.
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