Random Blahgging - I Couldn't Care Less

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

ARGH! While reading comments on a blog today, I came across someone using a phrase which, for some reason, really gets to me: "I could care less." Reading it or hearing it, it really gets me. It is almost as bad as hearing someone say "irregardless," which, unfortunately, seems to be making inroads among those that should know better.

Okay people - think about things before you say or write them. Help me live...

posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:19:50 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:25:45 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Hey, thats not as bad as "Let's touch base." That just sounds horrible.

Travis

Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:37:50 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I don't care for that phrase, but my point is that the phrase is not "I could care less" but "I couldn't care less" - the first rendering doesn't make any point because the whole idea behind the phrase is that you are trying to let someone know that you don't care about something. But if you say "I could care less" it means that you do care a little about it, and that there is room to care less about it, whereas the correct rendering of "I couldn't care less" intimates that you don't care one iota about it, and that you couldn't care less.

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