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To: logi_cal869

“”I could care less.””

As pointed out many times at FR, you really mean “I couldn’t care less.”


37 posted on 03/02/2021 3:19:28 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

43 posted on 03/02/2021 3:45:41 PM PST by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: Thank You Rush

care

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(4). In negative and conditional construction: a. not to care passes from the notion of ‘not to trouble oneself’, to those of ‘not to mind, not to regard or pay any deference or attention, to pay no respect, be indifferent’.

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(c) Colloq. phr. (I, etc.) couldn’t care less: (I am, etc.) completely uninterested, utterly indifferent; freq. as phr. used attrib. Hence couldn’t-care-less-ness.

(d) U.S. colloq. phr. (I, etc.) could care less = sense (c) above, with omission of negative.

- Oxford English Dictionary

To-wit: I know what I meant.


50 posted on 03/02/2021 4:13:11 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Thank You Rush

Or “I don’t care”


67 posted on 03/02/2021 6:33:14 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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