Ditto with "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less."
There's an interesting bit of circumstantial information there: either way it means the same thing, because if honestly do care about what someone is saying you wouldn't say so.
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Not following there. I always consideredCaj wrote:Ditto with "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less."
There's an interesting bit of circumstantial information there: either way it means the same thing, because if honestly do care about what someone is saying you wouldn't say so.
"I could care less" a mistake.
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Some people take them as the same thing, anyway. I could care less, but the difference sorta counts with me, too.fearfaoin wrote:Not following there. I always consideredCaj wrote:Ditto with "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less."
There's an interesting bit of circumstantial information there: either way it means the same thing, because if honestly do care about what someone is saying you wouldn't say so.
"I could care less" a mistake.
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It's a New York thing. Really, you hear it all the time there. Said with a strong, rising Yiddish-type inflection: I could care LESS? A rhetorical question. In the mouths of inflectionally challenged goyim, it becomes a weird grammar error.Nanohedron wrote:Some people take them as the same thing, anyway. I could care less, but the difference sorta counts with me, too.fearfaoin wrote:Not following there. I always considered
"I could care less" a mistake.
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I agree that it is the Yiddish-style rhetorical tone, and no other, that can serve and redeem the syntax to such perfection. But you hear it uninflected so here in the fly-over hinterlands as well. I have a friend who flatly says, "I could give a $#!+ less." And, of course, he means he couldn't. Charming turn of phrase, innit.MTGuru wrote:It's a New York thing. Really, you hear it all the time there. Said with a strong, rising Yiddish-type inflection: I could care LESS? A rhetorical question. In the mouths of inflectionally challenged goyim, it becomes a weird grammar error.Nanohedron wrote:Some people take them as the same thing, anyway. I could care less, but the difference sorta counts with me, too.fearfaoin wrote:Not following there. I always considered
"I could care less" a mistake.
I suppose if I really wanted to milk this thing, I could interpret "I could care less" as meaning, "I guess I could care less, but I don't care enough to bother even with that." But I won't.
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we should be so luckyNanohedron wrote:But I won't.