"Could Care Less" - Please Stop

[Bodeanicus]

Originally Posted by Nietche [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Intensive purposes= Intents and purposes (now you know)

Comma generally employed after a dependent clause (the prepositional phrase: "for all intent[s] [and] purposes) which starts the sentence (two or more words in the clause is a good rule of thumb, though I usually employ it even with single adverbs)

"Could care less" means the same thing as what is implied only when arguing from the perspective of illocution (implication derived through non-literal communication; e.g., is the salt down there honey? = pass the salt)

My own beef with people's grammatical mistakes is when people incorrectly use the phrase "begs the question." In written form, nothing frustrates me more than when the oxford comma is omitted, though mistakes like run-on sentences, split infinitives (there are exceptions), improper use (or lack) of apostrophes, and fragments drive me batty.

^ Forumquest is another matter of course. Illocution for the win.

Sarcasm is lost on Assburger's victims.