Would someone explain a strange phenomenon i notice here all the time...people saying 'could care less' when they mean..

[dug777]

They mean totally different things...'could care less' meaning you 'could' care less than you do about something, ie. you do care about it. 'Couldn't care less' means that you don't care about it...

And i see it dozens of times a day on here

 

[Howard]

No. They're just kind of stupid.

 

[Lonyo]

We've been here before, and all the people who are retarded enough to say "I could care less" are too retarded to care about the fact that IT'S WRONG. They "could" care less about it being wrong.

 

[DivideBYZero]

I could care less, dug.

 

[DivideBYZero]

And it's Phenomenon, whilst we have a stick up our asses.

 

[Chrono]

Stick it to the man!

 

[spaceman]

it's incorrect, but people take it to mean basically the same thing.

 

[iamwiz82]

Perhaps they intend sarcasm?

 

[Howard]

For all intensive purposes, its the same thing.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Howard
For all intensive purposes, its the same thing.

That's a mute point.

 

[pol II]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Howard
For all intensive purposes, its the same thing.

That's a mute point.

You guys are going to make me loose my temper

 

[Mickey Eye]

Yes, let lose that temper of yours.

 

[imported_LoKe]

It's incorrect, as is 70% of what you see on the Internet. "I could care less" means exactly what it says, you could care less, meaning you actually care to some degree. That's obviously not the point you're trying to get across. I've given up on my quest to teach the world the English language. -_-

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: pol II

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Howard
For all intensive purposes, its the same thing.

That's a mute point.

You guys are going to make me loose my temper

You're temper is nothing compared to mine.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
I could care less, dug.

 

[baoytl]

I don't know noboby that does that.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: baoytl
I don't know noboby that does that.

Double negatives make me want to cry.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Howard
No. They're just kind of stupid.

Yes, but let me axe you this. Is that there car over they're? Or is they'res the one over their?

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Howard
For all intensive purposes, its the same thing.

is this intentional sarcasm? or do you not know the difference?

Intents and purposes.

 

[baoytl]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: baoytl
I don't know noboby that does that.

Double negatives make me want to cry.

I should of said something else then.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Have.

 

[mitmot]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Howard
For all intensive purposes, its the same thing.

That's a mute point.

mute != moot.

 

[moshquerade]

it's not a big deal really. i get a kick out of people who are so anal over the phrases.

I could care less! you might say sometime in disgust. You might just as easily have said I couldn?t care less and meant the same thing! How can this be? When taken literally, the phrase I could care less means ?I care more than I might,? rather than ?I don?t care at all.? But the beauty of sarcasm is that it can turn meanings on their head, thus allowing could care less to work as an equivalent for couldn?t care less. Because of its sarcasm, could care less is more informal than its negative counterpart and may be open to misinterpretation when used in writing.

 

[BD2003]

Eh. I find the "all but" thingy even more irritated.

Like, "He's all but finished" means that he's basically finished. But if he's everything BUT finished, how the hell does that make him finished?

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
We've been here before, and all the people who are retarded enough to say "I could care less" are too retarded to care about the fact that IT'S WRONG. They "could" care less about it being wrong.

i think you summed the whole issue up perfectly mate