when someone tells u "mind ur P's & Q's whats the P & Q stand 4? whats this mean?
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Well Some think It stands for Mind Your questions and answers.\nBut when they say it to you they Dont want you to hear your input on what they are saying or what they are doing. Like this is my problem so just stay out of it.\nDont ask listen or answer!
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I can't believe how many people use P.S.S.!!  \n\nPost Script Script makes absolutely no sense, people.\n\nIt is Post Post Script.  "Post" in this context means after.  So the text after the Post Script is the Post Post Script.\n\nP.P.S. all the way.  Everybody who thinks otherwise is just plain ignorant.
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Probably 2.\n\nMIND YOUR PS AND QS\n\nA puzzling and quirky idiom\n\nThere has recently been a discussion on the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english about this somewhat outdated saying. As so often happens, a series of posters have recounted the explanations they’ve heard about its origins without really advancing the discussion. It would be difficult to reach a conclusion in any case, as the facts to base it on have been lost. All we can do is theorise, which can be fun, but it does tend to generate more heat than light. Here, for what its worth, are the facts so far as I know them.\n\nIts meaning in recent times—and the one I learned as a child in west London nearly 50 years ago—has been “to mind one’s manners”, “to behave properly”. This is a weakened sense to the one it had in the nineteenth century, when it meant, according to Eric Partridge in A Dictionary of Historical Slang: “to be careful, exact, or prudent in behaviour”.\n\nThese are some of the explanations I’ve seen advanced in various places:\n\n    * Advice to a child learning its letters to be careful not to mix up the handwritten lower-case letters p and q.\n    * Similar advice to a printer’s apprentice, for whom the backward-facing metal type letters would be especially confusing.\n    * Jocular, or perhaps deadly serious, advice to a barman not to confuse the letters p and q on the tally slate, on which the letters stood for the pints and quarts consumed “on tick” by the patrons.\n    * An abbreviation of mind your please’s and thank-you’s.\n    * Instructions from a French dancing master to be sure to perform the dance figures pieds and queues accurately.\n    * An admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with their tarred queues, that is, their pigtails.\n\nIt is possible to put forward objections to all of these. Why should p and q be singled out for attention in handwriting, when similar problems occur with b and d? This comment might be thought to apply with even greater force to the poor printer’s apprentice. The pints and quarts explanation sounds reasonable, provided that men in bars used to drink beer by the quart, as in fact they did. The French dancing-master explanation sounds just too far-fetched to be credible, as does the one about the seamen. The mind your please’s and thank-you’s seems just as unlikely as the others, but is seriously advanced by some dictionaries, the current edition of the Collins English Dictionary among them.\n\nThere are two similar usages recorded:\n\n    * There was once an expression P and Q, often written pee and kew, which was a seventeenth-century colloquial expression for “prime quality”. This later became a dialect expression (the English Dialect Dictionary reports it in Victorian times from Shropshire and Herefordshire). OED2 has a citation from Rowlands’ Knave of Harts of 1612:\n    * “Bring in a quart of Maligo, right true: And looke, you Rogue, that it be Pee and Kew.” Nobody is really sure what either P or Q stood for. To say they’re the initials of “Prime Quality” seems to be folk etymology, because surely that would make “PQ” rather than “P and Q”. Partridge says that the phrase learn your Ps and Qs, was common about 1820, again being advice to children who may be confused about the two letters.\n\nYou may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right. It may just be coincidence. However, the second does tend to support the idea that it relates to children learning their alphabets. If I had to make a choice, I’d plump for the alphabet-learning origin.\n\nWhat we do know is that mind your Ps and Qs was first recorded in 1779 but that it is slowly dying out. To lose it would be a pity, as it is a link to the past and makes a good subject for some quiet speculation and ingenious attempts at explanation. In common with so many words and phrases in English, its origins must remain
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working in a bar- the barmaids have to remember who ordered a pint/quart. \n\nIt is now used as a phrase meaning mind your own business.
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what parenthesis?  you need to reread your q
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Ur Q doesnt make any sense.
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what does ****************** mean?????????????????
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Hi bigslow,\nI think it's just another way to confuse someone. Good Luck: Blueladybug
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??I can't understand u
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P.S. is an abbreviation of Post Script (writing after you've finished a letter).\n\nP.P.S. is just people being silly and would be short for Post Post Script.
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BE CLEAR WHILE ASKING..\nWE CANT UNDERSTAND YOUR 'Q'.
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i dont understand wht u mean
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Is this some sort of weird homework question? Because if you did that while at work, someone needs to smack you.\n\nThink of it this way: the *s cancel out the &s, and if you do that, you're left with **q, which = &p, et cetera.
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what does this question mean?
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what do you mean?  cant understand the question.
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P= Personal\nC= Computer
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Politely it means "It is none of your business"\n\nDirectly translated\n- It concernes you wet dirt (shit) - \n\nI think whoever it is is trying to tell you to mind your own business. lol