# nm & mm

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782 "2019-07-09T16:29:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782/21 "2019-07-10T00:02:11Z")

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> [@Iggins](#):
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> NM (Never Mind) usually means that they wrote and posted a reply, but then thought better of it (or misunderstood the question), and edited the reply to only NM.
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> Not sure on MM.
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> I thought this would be millimeters and nanometers.

Never Mind, and Never Mind one thousand times.

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**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782/22 "2019-07-10T13:54:05Z")

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Thanks! I guess I’ll go with nm = never mind and mm = my mistake or it’s a typo for nm.

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**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782/23 "2019-07-10T16:31:11Z")

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> [@Melbourne](#):
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> Never Mind, and Never Mind one thousand times.

Actually Never Mind one million times…

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782/24 "2019-07-10T22:38:05Z")

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Before I learned to look up acronyms, I assumed that “QFT” meant “quit fucking trolling”.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nm-mm/836782/25 "2019-07-10T22:56:10Z")

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> [@Iggins](#):
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> I thought this would be millimeters and nanometers.

Nautical miles and millimetres. A very odd combination, I thought…

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