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AAAAAARGHHHHHH! The poor English gripe thread....
[Public Service Editorial of the day]
Okay, some of ya!
It is "I could NOT care less about...." NOT "I could care less about...."
otherwise you're saying exactly the opposite of what you presumably are trying to say and that makes some of us want to kill you in excruciatingly agonizing ways and cause others to smirk uncontrollably behind your back.... !!!
sheeesh.....
aaaah, I feel better now...!
[anything else along those lines (that I am not guilty of myself... ? ]
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06-11-08, 09:05 AM
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Irregardless....
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06-11-08, 09:09 AM
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True. But I still voted "I could care less."
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06-11-08, 09:10 AM
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Is this not a repost?
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06-11-08, 09:10 AM
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Simma down der young whipper snapper; note last line:
“Could Care Less” versus “Couldn’t Care Less”
“Could Care Less” versus “Couldn’t Care Less”
My article about the loss of Thou received some comments on the use of “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less.”
My choice to write “Shakespeare could care less” was a deliberate one. I felt that “could care less” was more euphonious than “couldn’t care less” and sounded a bit “cheekier.” I thought that by now either form of the idiom was acceptable.
How wrong can a writer be?!
So wrong that a Google search of the phrase “could care less” garners 1,930,000 hits. Some of the discussions are quite impassioned. Although the newer form of the expression meaning “not to care at all” has been widely-used for some time, many people still regard it as an uneducated error.
Paul Brians, English professor at Washington State University, points out in an interview with Avi Arditti the difficulty of dealing with idioms that are in the process of changing:
the problem is that as [a new idiom] evolves, you get caught as a user between people who are going with the new pattern and those who know the old pattern and are comfortable with it.
Cautions Brians,
some people will disapprove or think less of you if you say it [the new] way.
He concludes that speakers and writers may choose to use the newer pattern, but that they do so at a certain risk because people who are bothered by the new pattern may be in a position to hire them, or grade their papers, or reject them as social equals.
The Oxford dictionary already recognizes “could care less” as an American colloquialism. Many people, however, regard it as incorrect since it makes no logical sense (if you “could care less” it means that you care at least a bit).
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06-11-08, 09:16 AM
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who cares.....your you're you are a 100 series guy..............................whine whine whine, shottz, whine whine
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06-11-08, 09:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by e9999
[Public Service Editorial of the day]
Okay, some of ya!
It is "I could NOT care less about...." NOT "I could care less about...."
otherwise you're saying exactly the opposite of what you presumably are trying to say and that makes some of us want to kill you in excruciatingly agonizing ways and cause others to smirk uncontrollably behind your back.... !!!
sheeesh.....
aaaah, I feel better now...!
[anything else along those lines (that I am not guilty of myself... ? ] |
Actually they serve the same purpose if the former is spoken sincerely and the latter is spoken ironically.
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06-11-08, 09:26 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by e9999
[Public Service Editorial of the day]
Okay, some of ya!
It is "I could NOT care less about...." NOT "I could care less about...."
otherwise you're saying exactly the opposite of what you presumably are trying to say and that makes some of us want to kill you in excruciatingly agonizing ways and cause others to smirk uncontrollably behind your back.... !!!
sheeesh.....
aaaah, I feel better now...!
[anything else along those lines (that I am not guilty of myself... ? ] |
Are you talking about the people what misuse words?
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06-11-08, 09:32 AM
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I believe you may be correct.
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06-11-08, 09:40 AM
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I agree with this thread topic completely. It bothers the shit out of me when people don't speak English good.
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06-11-08, 09:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by e9999
[Public Service Editorial of the day]
Okay, some of ya!
It is "I could NOT care less about...." NOT "I could care less about...."
otherwise you're saying exactly the opposite of what you presumably are trying to say and that makes some of us want to kill you in excruciatingly agonizing ways and cause others to smirk uncontrollably behind your back.... !!!
sheeesh.....
aaaah, I feel better now...!
[anything else along those lines (that I am not guilty of myself... ? ] |
Is this your thread you have to post to join TUT?????, with their perfect grammar and such.................. 
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06-11-08, 09:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by e9999
[Public Service Editorial of the day]
otherwise you're saying exactly the opposite of what you presumably are trying to say and that makes some of us want to kill you in excruciatingly agonizing ways and cause others to smirk uncontrollably behind your back.... !!!
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I worry more about the excruciatingly long run-on sentence.
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06-11-08, 09:51 AM
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06-11-08, 09:52 AM
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Man, if this pisses you off, then the following must make you homicidal
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06-11-08, 09:54 AM
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Yes, reposts do anger me quite a bit.
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06-11-08, 09:58 AM
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Quote:
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[Public Service Editorial of the day]
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Don't you have something more pressing to worry about? Like, for instance, the end of the Toyota Land Cruiser because of high oil prices 
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06-11-08, 10:04 AM
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My pet peave, "he's got", "you've got", and "she's got." It is "has", you would'nt say "he has got", "you have got" or "she has got."
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06-11-08, 10:08 AM
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More:
Using "to" instead of "too" and "your" instead of "you're".
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06-11-08, 10:09 AM
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AND IT IS LITRE PEOPLE, NOT LITER! IT IS COLOUR, NOT COLOR!
FUCK Webster and his dictionary! 
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06-11-08, 10:12 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cary
My pet peave, "he's got", "you've got", and "she's got." It is "has", you would'nt say "he has got", "you have got" or "she has got."
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mmm..... should I say it or not.... ? 
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06-11-08, 10:14 AM
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Quote:
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Don't you have something more pressing to worry about? Like, for instance, the end of the Toyota Land Cruiser because of high oil prices
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ah, I got over that one. Have to embrace Karma, life is too short... plus gonna get myself a bike...
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06-11-08, 10:17 AM
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damn, we are doomed.... 
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Quote:
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My pet peave, "he's got", "you've got", and "she's got." It is "has", you would'nt say "he has got", "you have got" or "she has got."
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Don't be peavish.
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06-15-08, 01:27 AM
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06-15-08, 04:19 AM
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Indubitabily.
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06-15-08, 04:27 AM
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I agree with this thread topic completely. It bothers the shit out of me when people don't speak English good.
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06-15-08, 05:12 AM
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it drives me nuts when people post using no capitalization or puncuation but im not going to start an entire thread whining about it not everyone has or has had the opportunity to learn to speak or write proper grammer and take into account regional accents phrases etc BTW, it pained me to no end to write that!  Just speak and write correctly yourself and take personal pleasure in that. Otherwise, shut up and . Or buy a Land Rover.
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