Legal Term to Make Whole Again
- #1
So I purchased a production online simply found it a far cry from what is advertised on the website of the merchant. Disappointed, I wrote an electronic mail expressing my disappointment and requesting a refund. Unfortunately, I cannot specify what the product is.
The merchant replied. He said, ... "i do want to do something for you to make yous "whole" again". Then he said he would hold to a partial refund.
I was pondering over this word "whole". Was he being derogatory to me?
Thank you
- #3
I guess his native language is English. Their website is solely in English language and their customer support number is a US toll-costless number.
What is the merchant's native language?
While this doesn't audio idiomatic in this context, information technology doesn't sound as if it was meant in an insulting fashion to me.
Chary
post modernistic (English language Only / Latin)
- #7
I have heard "make you whole again" used to mean that someone volition compensate for any money you lost or spent. I would have expected "make you lot whole" to hateful that he volition return all of the coin, not part of information technology, unless he has explained why he thinks he is responsible for just a function of your expenditure. In whatsoever case, I remember he is talking most money. He puts "whole" in quotation marks to acknowledge that he is using the word metaphorically, not literally. The offer may not be satisfactory, only I don't think the wording suggests an insult.
NOTE: I cannot find "make [somebody] whole again" referring to financial bounty amongst the idioms, just I find it in online contexts, where people are discussing suits for amercement, or talking about restoring coin lost in bad investments.
Edit: I note that lablady has said the same while I was posting. I am leaving this anyway. We are both from the California valley. Maybe this is a regional usage.
- #9
Information technology may be relatively recent. I've been here in California for thirty years (exactly 30 years today, come to think of information technology) but I don't remember when I outset heard it. It's possibly only been within the last fifteen years or so that I starting time came upon information technology, and may take been considering of a good friend who happens to be a Superior Court guess. 
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- #11
Some other Californian chiming in hither. I agree with Cagey and Lablady and I would ha.ave understood the phrase to mean something corresponding to Packard's definition. It'southward not an insult.
- #16
Mike: I've got something new. It'south just starting upwards. Information technology'south gonna make you whole.
Source: Breaking Bad 503
Background: Gus's meth empire was complanate. And Gus was killed in a larger than life fashion. One of his guys, let'southward phone call him 10, was looking at eight years minimum in prison house. Mike, Gus's enforcer who managed to stay off the police radar, came to visit X in prison. X wanted Mike to pay more for his silence or he'd flip and rat him out. Mike told him that he was starting up a new business and promised him more hush money, provided that he kept his rima oris close.
Does "make you whole" in this example hateful "compensate for whatsoever money y'all lost or spent." as Cagey explained in #7?
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- #20
Hi lucas,
"Brand them whole" is mentioned over again toward the end of the episode. The highlighted part in the post-obit instance led me to think that the phrase has something to do with money. After reading your caption, I suspect it'south merely his idiosyncratic utilise of the expression.
Mike: The feds Rico-ed their hazard pay, so we are gonna make 'em whole.
Walter: Nosotros are gonna make them whole"? What is this "we"? These were Gus's employees, not ours.
Source: Breaking Bad 503
Background: Mike's new partner, Walter didn't know anything almost the hush money they needed to pay the Gus's ex-employees until they were splitting the profits. Plain, this didn't really go down well with Walter.
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