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To: eyedigress
I just went to a joint military base and they could care less about any of this crap.

Could NOT care less

Could NOT care less

COULD NOT CARE LESS

Words mean things, and when you misuse words and ignore what they mean, your words and those of others become simple ape grunts.

If you want to be that lazy and miss the word NOT, then at least add the phrase "But not much", and all will be well with the grammar libertarian wing of FR.

24 posted on 09/25/2020 10:45:06 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That drives me absolutely nuts when people say that they *could care less* when they mean that they could NOT care any less than they already do!

God bless you and I am stealing that, thankyouverymuch.


28 posted on 09/25/2020 11:36:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Don W
Words mean things

Indeed. Great graphic. People will still screw that particular phrase up though.

You might be interested in this: Word Crimes

32 posted on 09/26/2020 10:22:40 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Don W

“Could care less” is simply a colloquialism. Perhaps that Freeper, eyedigress, simply acclimates to the local vernacular. It is almost like dialects, so many colloquialisms and idioms. Our daughter, a brilliant HydroGeologist, dropped her minor - Spanish - because she didn’t have time to memorize all the idioms in Spanish. I have noticed while watching Italian, German, and Spanish movies, they don’t translate word for word, due to idioms and local vernacular.


59 posted on 09/30/2020 9:42:22 PM PDT by buffyt (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. H L Menchen)
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