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If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:41 am
by eliphar17
"I could care less" is incorrect!
Think about it... if you could care less, that means you do care at least a little bit. Let's say that the amount that you care about something is zero. Assuming it's not possible to care negatively about something, zero is the lowest care you can have. You can't care less than zero. Therefore, what you want to say is
"I couldn't care less."
Thank you for your attention.
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Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:11 am
by GRID
That has always bugged me too. People say that wrong and they are not making any sense.
Also, alot is not a word.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:29 am
by DaveKCMO
i could care alot.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:11 pm
by eliphar17
DaveKCMO wrote:
i could care alot.
AAARRGGGHHH shoot me now!
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:39 pm
by shinatoo
Problem is that you are trying to attract people to this topic that care about grammer. Yet at the same time you told those people to skip it with your title.
Looks like someone laced their shoes with irony this morning.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:01 pm
by bbqboy
noone cares.
right, chef?
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:06 pm
by bahua
your stupid
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:55 pm
by eliphar17
shinatoo wrote:
Problem is that you are trying to attract people to this topic that care about grammer. Yet at the same time you told those people to skip it with your title.
Looks like someone laced their shoes with irony this morning.
You don't think I meant to do that? Come on, give me some credit...
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:04 pm
by Gladstoner
Start to use Yoda grammar I think we should. A great man Yoda was.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:44 pm
by Roanoker
Eliphar, if you are young, you may as well find a way to steel yourself against poor grammar. It is rampant. Allow it to flow freely through your doesn't-bother-me cape. Otherwise, you will eventually go crazy, as highly paid, thoroughly educated journalists continue to murder the English language.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:53 pm
by kcdcchef
bbqboy wrote:
noone cares.
right, chef?
noep, i do'nt fucking caer a hole alot
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:01 pm
by bahua
kcdcchef wrote:
noep, i do'nt fucking caer a hole alot
You mean, "fucken?"
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:02 pm
by AllThingsKC
Missourah.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:06 pm
by shinatoo
eliphar17 wrote:
You don't think I meant to do that? Come on, give me some credit...
Yo, jus crakin on ya dawg.
Foshizal, yo my nizzal, elfizzal.
(I feel a little quezzial just typing that.).
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:10 am
by lock+load
GRID: you loose.
I believe it was staubio that posted this originally...
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:51 am
by Gladstoner
lock&load wrote:
GRID: you loose.
I believe it was staubio that posted this originally...
Very well put.
Another similar one I've heard is "YOU CAN WIN AS MUCH AS (blah blah) DOLLARS OR MORE!!", which can be anything from 0 to infinity.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:15 pm
by Tosspot
BUMP
The literary lapses on this board are confounding.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:40 pm
by DiggityDawg
Tosspot wrote:
BUMP
The literary lapses on this board are confounding.
No there not.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:41 pm
by lock+load
Noone ever listens. Only a matter of time before we see someone loose controll.
Re: If you could care less about grammar, skip this topic.
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:42 pm
by WSPanic
No there not.
Agreed. Their perfectly exceptable.
