"Could Care Less" - Please Stop

[Fael]

I suppose that is the point of this thread. /wrist

[Ele]

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

I may be slow elethia BUT....

If one is at the zero level of your care continuum. Then he is capable of saying that it is impossible for him to care less than zero. Thus, he can correctly say "I couldn't care less."

Dolic

zero level = zero cares given

[Barkingturtle]

For all intensive purposes "could care less" means the same thing.

[Ele]

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

For all intensive purposes "could care less" means the same thing.

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[Leddy]

Literally, for all intensive purposes I could care less. Irregardless their is no reason it coulda mattered. Literally.

[Acidon]

That was a long, well thought out post, OP.

Too bad you're wrong. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[radditsu]

I'm just glad to be nominated.

[myriverse]

Whoever could care less has another thing coming.

[Nietche]

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

For all intensive purposes "could care less" means the same thing.

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.

[Sgt1stClassPerkerwood]

I just want to get my goddam Chtulu account back