What's with "I could care less"? Shouldn't it be "I couldn't care less" as afterall, if you could care less that means you actually care some.
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Jarred, you are correct. "I could care less" has annoyed me for years; it's grammatically incorrect.
I also get annoyed at the word "irregardless". Grrr!
I also get annoyed at the word "irregardless". Grrr!
<<Jarred, you are correct. "I could care less" has annoyed me for years; it's grammatically incorrect.>>
No, it's perfectly correct gramatically, but it doesn't express the same meaning as "I couldn't care less" unless it is used ironically. If you want to define it in terms of "correctness", well, it's *semantically* incorrect.
No, it's perfectly correct gramatically, but it doesn't express the same meaning as "I couldn't care less" unless it is used ironically. If you want to define it in terms of "correctness", well, it's *semantically* incorrect.
I'm with the "...couldn't care less" camp. That's how I've always heard it growing up and that's how I've always said it myself. Using "irregardless" should be made a capital offense in my opinion, along with "continue on".
I'm in the camp that claims "I could care less" usually means the same thing as "I couldn't care less". I suppose this is just an idiom or semantic irregularity, that's now part of (informal) English.
I also have no objection to things like "irregardless", "continue on", "mentee", "dove" (past tense of "dive"), "gotten", "ain't", the singular "they", use of "more clear" rather than "clearer", etc.
I also have no objection to things like "irregardless", "continue on", "mentee", "dove" (past tense of "dive"), "gotten", "ain't", the singular "they", use of "more clear" rather than "clearer", etc.
Yeah, I say "I could care less," and most of my peers do as well... I also use "dove" for the past tense of dive (dived sounds weird to me), gotten, the singular "they," and "ain't" if I'm trying to annoy my exgirlfriend from SoCal :-)