"I could care less"

[Bulk Beef]

I could give two sh!ts.

 

[crt1530]

Don't forget "for all intensive purposes."

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Irregardless of you're opinion, I could care less. Their are more important things in life to worry about.

Regardless of your stance on the issue, I'll be the one to point out the formal invalidity of the word "irregardless".

As with any thread pointing out grammar deficiencies, most responses are overly defensive, as if not caring about one's linguistical ignorance somehow excuses it.

Read his post again. Did he make any other mistakes? 😉

 

[waggy]

i went into a bakery today to pick up a bagel but they were all out!

i wanted a nice garlic one. but i had to settle for a dough-nut and coffee.

sigh what a day.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Irregardless of you're opinion, I could care less. Their are more important things in life to worry about.

Regardless of your stance on the issue, I'll be the one to point out the formal invalidity of the word "irregardless".

As with any thread pointing out grammar deficiencies, most responses are overly defensive, as if not caring about one's linguistical ignorance somehow excuses it.

Read his post again. Did he make any other mistakes? 😉

One can only hope, and pray to God, that he did that for a joke. Perhaps he was going for a triple-hitter 🙂

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Irregardless of you're opinion, I could care less. Their are more important things in life to worry about.

Regardless of your stance on the issue, I'll be the one to point out the formal invalidity of the word "irregardless".

As with any thread pointing out grammar deficiencies, most responses are overly defensive, as if not caring about one's linguistical ignorance somehow excuses it.

Read his post again. Did he make any other mistakes? 😉

😉

Edit:

One can only hope, and pray to God, that he did that for a joke. Perhaps he was going for a triple-hitter

Quadruple-hitter. :Q

Home Run Kyteland!!!

 

[Ferocious]

umm I always thought it was...

I couldn't care less.

At least that's how I've always said it.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Irregardless of you're opinion, I could care less. Their are more important things in life to worry about.

Regardless of your stance on the issue, I'll be the one to point out the formal invalidity of the word "irregardless".

As with any thread pointing out grammar deficiencies, most responses are overly defensive, as if not caring about one's linguistical ignorance somehow excuses it.

Read his post again. Did he make any other mistakes? 😉

😉

Edit:

One can only hope, and pray to God, that he did that for a joke. Perhaps he was going for a triple-hitter

Quadruple-hitter. :Q

Home Run Kyteland!!!

Hee hee, if I'd have caught that their, your intentions would have been clear. You used some rediculously bad grammar skills, and now I have to.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: DougK62

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Irregardless of you're opinion, I could care less. Their are more important things in life to worry about.

Uh - this isn't my opinion. It's fact about how our language works. There are legit cases for using "I could care less" (some shown in this thread), but most of the time people use it incorrectly when they really mean "I couldn't care less".

Whoops, missed this one.

I was joking. 😉

 

[Murphyrulez]

I really don't care how people say stuff. Wtf? Go find something better to do with your life.

 

[neovan]

i just say "i don't give a rat's ass"

 

[NogginBoink]

Yes, it bugs me too.

 

[blackdogdeek]

then vs than
your vs you're
could/should have vs could/should of
there vs their

 

[PanzerIV]

I hate it too but not as much as "might could" which is apparently a popular thing to say in the South. "Yeah, he might could do that."

How goofy.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

I realize that I'm being anal here, but does it bother anyone else when people use this phrase?

Yes. Bugs the crap out of me. Even intelligent and well educated people seem to use it at times, which baffles me. Nonetheless, it does bother me less than the incorrect usage of their/there/they're, which just says to me public school educated :evil:

Took you a while to post Skoorb, I would have expected you to be right in there.
How can people be so uneducated. Do schools not work in the US or something?

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: sward666
I could give two sh!ts.

I just gave one. But it was really firm. Lotsa hard pushing going on. 🙂

KK

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

I realize that I'm being anal here, but does it bother anyone else when people use this phrase?

Yes. Bugs the crap out of me. Even intelligent and well educated people seem to use it at times, which baffles me. Nonetheless, it does bother me less than the incorrect usage of their/there/they're, which just says to me public school educated :evil:

they have private schools in eastern canada?

furthermore, aren't you a newfie?

 

[Ausm]

what bugs me is your analogy of anal....


Ausm

 

[johnjbruin]

i agree. it is annoying. and all the people who are defending it here probably have posted it before and are just mad that they still dont get it.

 

[atom]

Less care could I give.

 

[stormbv]

It seems I have shat myself.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Do people even listen to themselves and understand what they say?

The vast majority of people just don't care. Correcting their grammar won't make them care; it will just make them angry. Thus, the best course of action is to get over it. People will always use poor grammar, that's just the way it is.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: dnuggett
I could care less than you could care less.

 

[shimsham]

who gives a fvck?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: DougK62
I realize that I'm being anal here, but does it bother anyone else when people use this phrase? The correct phrase is "I could NOT care less". Do people even listen to themselves and understand what they say? Apparently not, because if they did, "I could care less" wouldn't be used so frequently.

Any other phrases out there that are very often used incorrectly?

it's NOT "I could NOT care less," it's "I COULDN'T care less." (Who is this who doesn't use contractions when speaking in English??)