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To: B4Ranch
What annoys me is when people say "I could care less" when they actually probably mean "I couldn't care less."

So when they say the former, I usually say "So you care at least a little?"

13 posted on 08/30/2015 10:44:20 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: SamAdams76

Yeah, so don’t I.


63 posted on 08/30/2015 11:02:50 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: SamAdams76

You’re hearing it without the rising inflection and the emphasis on the “I”. It is a question delivered with an air of irony. I can remember some old Jews using it this way when I was a kid. You will see it in old movies from time to tim. Old books as well.


71 posted on 08/30/2015 11:07:06 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: SamAdams76

irregardless.


72 posted on 08/30/2015 11:07:14 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: SamAdams76

See Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” for caring less.

:^)


94 posted on 08/30/2015 11:18:34 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: SamAdams76
What annoys me is when people say "I could care less" when they actually probably mean "I couldn't care less."

I think that one is an American idiom, so it's not exactly the same class as other grammatical errors. Most Americans know what it really means. Even people who have otherwise perfect grammar might occasionally use it. Using this expression accentuates the idea of how little you care because you are not even caring enough to have perfect grammar. So it is a little bit clever in that way and sort of likable that it is a peculiarly American expression.

181 posted on 08/30/2015 12:15:27 PM PDT by wideminded
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