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what's the difference between"I don't mean it mean. " and "I don't mean it is mean ."?And why?

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The first one, as it is written, is not standard written English, because it needs a verb to connect "it" to the adjective "mean". The second one corrects this problem. I'm not sure if you're asking about this, but we have "mean" being used here in two very different senses. The verb (I don't mean") in a sense of communicating information, and the adjective "mean" ("it is mean"), in the sense of cruel, unkind.
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其实,我是在小说《The Catcher In The Rye》上看到这句话的,可能原文有一个语境,我没表达出来,引起误会了,原文里主人公说了些很刻薄的话然后又想表示自己“不是有意要损他”就说了"I don't mean it mean. "我以为是个宾补什么的但又不太确定,后来自己又想到"I don't mean it is mean."这句话,就有点分不清这两种表达方式有什么区别,含义上有什么不同,想要请教一下。希望我这次表达得足够清晰~
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