Today I have begun to wonder how the colloquialism “It don’t make me no nevermind” came to exist.
The best guess I can make is that it started out as “It don’t make me no… oh never mind.” I.e. the first sentence breaks off before being completed by the word “difference.”
Then later this pair of expressions came to be thought of as a single sentence.
Well, that’s my guess. But do we have a straightened out mess of dope available to us on the question?
-FrL-
I always figured it was “nevermind” as in “a thing I wouldn’t give a damn about”. As in, I don’t give a damn one way or another. Figured it was a Southernism.
“It don’t make me” in starting to say “It don’t make me because I do what I feel like. Don’t nobody tell me what to do.”
Then saying “No, nevermind” in realizing that choice is an illusion in a deterministic reality and control was just a farce.
Not that I think about the phrase often; but when I have, this was my evaluation.
Wtf? I hate this OP. It is nonsense.
Just a hunch: Instead of saying “It don’t make no difference…” one just substitutes “nevermind” for “difference.” That’s how I always read/heard it. (Southerner, if that matters.)
I’m siding with the native speaker here. Nice that we have someone who can translate for the rest of us! 
Southerner here - not sure of its origins but it just means “I don’t care about that”.
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This is the first time I’ve seen someone threadshit on their own thread, even if it is a zombie.
This is mostly to remind posters that this thread was started in 2007.
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That was pretty good Frylock. It reminds me of Muad’Dib and his burrito problem.
Yeah, we know what it means. The question in the thread is the origin of the phrase-- why those particular words.
Personally, I think it’s a wonderful expression. One of those things that makes perfect sense if you just let it go and don’t over-analyze it.
Reminds me of one of my favorite song lyrics:
Is you is or
Is you ain’t my baby?
This may not be what your looking for as a definitive first-of-its-kind reference, but John S. Cody “It Don’t Make No Never Mind” (To Me No How) …
Well, that’s interesting because I was going to say that I usually heard it as “it don’t make no nevermind to me”, instead of the way the OP phrased it, but then I thought: I’m a damn Yankee, so what the hell do I know about Southern speech!
Bless your heart!
I had not heard of this before but having done the requisite searching I am duly amused.
Did he ever come around to seeing that his question was no good?
(I noticed, btw, that he posted regularly til 2008, then after that there is just one post, in 2014, consisting only of three periods. Mysterious!)
I never got a long way into the works of Frank Herbert: found them not my personal cup of tea. Anaamika, on initially reading your post, I was envisaging some burrito-related issue in the “Dune” books, and wondering whether I had read about it, but forgotten; or hadn’t penetrated that far into the books. I then saw Frylock’s response to you, and the penny dropped: Muad’Dib the username of a one-time poster on the Dope, who I didn’t seem hitherto to have come across.
“Search” feature duly employed: I didn’t find his burrito stuff, but was treated to much else, in great variety. Strange fellow…