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To: econjack

How do you like “I could care less” when the speaker means he couldn’t care less?


22 posted on 07/09/2015 12:04:07 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

Well, that is usually spoken in a sarcastic tone, which makes the meaning equivalent, like I might say “Yeah, I really give a ****”, when I obviously do not.


57 posted on 07/09/2015 12:22:39 PM PDT by Boogieman
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AARGH!
98 posted on 07/09/2015 3:16:26 PM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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