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why do americans say "I could care less"

*The_West*

*The_West*

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seriously. i see it all the time, but i just dont get it. by saying "I could care less" that would be saying that you actually do care, because if you can care less, then you must care a bit.
In england, we would say "I couldn't care less" meaning i dont care at all, because i cant physically care any less.
Has anyone else ever considered this, or do i spend too much time thinking about things that actually dont matter?
 
*The_West* said:
seriously. i see it all the time, but i just dont get it. by saying "I could care less" that would be saying that you actually do care, because if you can care less, then you must care a bit.
In england, we would say "I couldn't care less" meaning i dont care at all, because i cant physically care any less.
Has anyone else ever considered this, or do i spend too much time thinking about things that actually dont matter?
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I could care less.
 
*The_West* said:
so therefore you must care a bit, if you could care less?
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I've had the exact same rumination... I mean if one says they could care less this gives the impression that one has the capacity to be less concerned with the event that they care about, yet they are unwilling to pursue that venue, so this means they are at a level of great concern with their said issue... but this is the exact opposite of what it means... I agree, great thread... or clear as mud... that one always bothered me... so true...
 
jackangel said:
you are person 3,402,283 in the history of the world to wonder about this.
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i am? i have never heard it be asked before and i have wondered about it for ages. i just dont get it. then agian, you guys did take the 'u' out of "colour" aswell
 
ariel347 said:
I've had the exact same rumination... I mean if one says they could care less this gives the impression that one has the capacity to be less concerned with the event that they care about, yet they are unwilling to pursue that venue, so this means they are at a level of great concern with their said issue... but this is the exact opposite of what it means... I agree, great thread... or clear as mud... that one always bothered me... so true...
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did you just eat a thesaurus? :p
 
when people say they could care less, they are mistaking the phrase. thats all.

it SHOULD be said couldnt care less.


though i really couldnt care less who says what. :) I know what they mean.
 
*The_West* said:
i am? i have never heard it be asked before and i have wondered about it for ages. i just dont get it. then agian, you guys did take the 'o' out of "colour" aswell
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lol colur? culor? culur?

we dont do that.

Color
 
cindylou said:
lol colur? culor? culur?

we dont do that.

Color
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post edited. i meant to say you took the 'u' out of colour .silly me. you guys did take the 'o' out of "foetus" though. although to be honest that never made much phonetic sense anyway
 
cindylou said:
when people say they could care less, they are mistaking the phrase. thats all.

it SHOULD be said couldnt care less.


though i really couldnt care less who says what. :) I know what they mean.
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+1 TITCR

The correct and ONLY way to say the phrase is, "I couldn't care less." Saying it any other way is simply an error indicating that the speaker is not paying attention to what s/he is saying.

Something similar happens when people try to add "irrespective" to "regardless" and get the double-negative "irregardless," which is not a word at all!
 
jerseyrugger76 said:
+1 TITCR

The correct and ONLY way to say the phrase is, "I couldn't care less." Saying it any other way is simply an error indicating that the speaker is not paying attention to what s/he is saying.

Something similar happens when people try to add "irrespective" to "regardless" and get the double-negative "irregardless," which is not a word at all!
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i have never heard anyone say "irregardless" before lol. that would probably push me over the edge!
 
cindylou said:
do you use Celsius instead of Farenheit?

I cant remember who uses what anymore.
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of course i use celsius, although i tend to call it centigrade. jesus, you guys dont even use the metric system!
 
*The_West* said:
seriously. i see it all the time, but i just dont get it. by saying "I could care less" that would be saying that you actually do care, because if you can care less, then you must care a bit.
In england, we would say "I couldn't care less" meaning i dont care at all, because i cant physically care any less.
Has anyone else ever considered this, or do i spend too much time thinking about things that actually dont matter?
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Poor grammar. Plain and simple.
 
Nonsense. It's a typical understatement -- to be read as "I could care less (but not by much)."
 
digger said:
Nonsense. It's a typical understatement -- to be read as "I could care less (but not by much)."
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Nonsense. It's a malapropism.
 
*The_West* said:
post edited. i meant to say you took the 'u' out of colour .silly me. you guys did take the 'o' out of "foetus" though. although to be honest that never made much phonetic sense anyway
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They also took the "u" out of labour. I guess that's their way of saying they don't like U. :D
 
jerseyrugger76 said:
+1 TITCR

The correct and ONLY way to say the phrase is, "I couldn't care less." Saying it any other way is simply an error indicating that the speaker is not paying attention to what s/he is saying.

Something similar happens when people try to add "irrespective" to "regardless" and get the double-negative "irregardless," which is not a word at all!
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credited by you at least.


I thinks it be cuz peeps was first being whut ya say sarcastic saying they could when they couldn't. Then later dumb asses didn't know the first ones was bein sarcastic and copied and all, but didn't think about whut they were saying.
 
*The_West* said:
how do you mean? do you do a lot of labour? are you often in labour?
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lol. I dont know why I use the word labor alot.

i have never been in labor thank god.

it is 98 degrees outside today btw.


effing hot
 
cindylou said:
lol. I dont know why I use the word labour alot.

i have never been in labour thank god.

it is 98 degrees outside today btw.


effing hot
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i fixed your spelling mistakes lmao. sorry i couldnt help myself.
98 degress wtf!!! thats the temperature water boils at how are you alive??? no lol, thats about 30 degress centigrade right? effing hot.
its quite warm in where i am today actually, and it hasnt even rained!
 
blueta2 said:
we also use the word cheque and not check
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err...so do we. if you are referring to a piece of paper you give to someone allowing them to access a given amount of money from your account.
 
*The_West* said:
i fixed your spelling mistakes lmao. sorry i couldnt help myself.
98 degress wtf!!! thats the temperature water boils at how are you alive??? no lol, thats about 30 degress centigrade right? effing hot.
its quite warm in where i am today actually, and it hasnt even rained!
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lol

the centigrade system makes much more sense but the unneeded u in labor is just pretentious.
 
cindylou said:
lol

the centigrade system makes much more sense but the unneeded u in labor is just pretentious.
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pretentious lol we invented the language!!! americans only simplified certain words so dumbasses had more chance of spelling things correctly.
the only word you lot correctly altered was "foetus" into "fetus" and for some reason i still dont think it looks right.
 
*The_West* said:
pretentious lol we invented the language!!! americans only simplified certain words so dumbasses had more chance of spelling things correctly.
the only word you lot correctly altered was "foetus" into "fetus" and for some reason i still dont think it looks right.
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lol .

i could care less, really.


:)
 
cindylou said:
when people say they could care less, they are mistaking the phrase. thats all.

it SHOULD be said couldnt care less.


though i really couldnt care less who says what. :) I know what they mean.
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Yup -- its a common misuse of the term.

I like it when someone says "exact same" too. For example: "These two items are the exact same thing." You might as wells say: "These two items are the exact same identical indistinguishable thing".
 
i dont know, you could argue that they are just reinforcing their point by saying that whatever it is isn't just the same, its exactly the same. i'll admit that one is something i have said.
 
*The_West* said:
i dont know, you could argue that they are just reinforcing their point by saying that whatever it is isn't just the same, its exactly the same. i'll admit that one is something i have said.
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It gets even better though -- I've always enjoyed: "Well those things are pretty much the exact same thing".

Oh, and "irregardless" cracks me up too.
 
One that bugs me is when people pronounce it as "fustrating" instead of "frustrating". I had an old boss that used to even say "flustrating".

I quit.
 
mrplunkey said:
It gets even better though -- I've always enjoyed: "Well those things are pretty much the exact same thing".

Oh, and "irregardless" cracks me up too.
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yep, that's the one I was going to post but Plunky beat me to it....
 
I always say "I couldn't care less"

"I could care less" makes no sense.
 
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