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"I COULD care less" or "I COULDN'T care less" Which is it?

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Lordyaswas
 
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Wed 26 Jun, 2013 05:20 am
Couldn't care less is factual, not sarcastic.

I am at the lowest possible level of caring. It couldn't be any less.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Fri 28 Jun, 2013 03:14 am
@Lordyaswas,
That is accurate.
It means that his degree of interest is zero.
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JTT
 
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Fri 28 Jun, 2013 11:30 am
@Lordyaswas,
Quote:
Couldn't care less is factual, not sarcastic.

I am at the lowest possible level of caring. It couldn't be any less.


I don't believe that it can be said to always be the case, Lordy.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Fri 28 Jun, 2013 12:51 pm
Quote:
I don't believe that it can be said to always be the case, Lordy.


I suspect this was meant to read: I do believe that is not always the case.
JTT
 
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Fri 28 Jun, 2013 07:00 pm
@Frank Apisa,
I don't believe that it can be said to always be the case, Lordy.

Quote:
I suspect this was meant to read: I do believe that is not always the case.


Please, go ahead and explain, Frank.
laughoutlood
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 03:25 am
@Lordyaswas,
I couldn't care less about you learning how to play the sardonicism, you a muse.

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Frank Apisa
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 04:27 am
@JTT,
JTT wrote:

I don't believe that it can be said to always be the case, Lordy.

Quote:
I suspect this was meant to read: I do believe that is not always the case.


Please, go ahead and explain, Frank.


Think it over...and see if you can see the difference between the two statements.
laughoutlood
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 04:52 am
@Frank Apisa,
Frank, when you make a mistake, correct yourself and move on, everyone thinks nonetheless of you.







once again
Frank Apisa
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 05:25 am
@laughoutlood,
laughoutlood wrote:

Frank, when you make a mistake, correct yourself and move on, everyone thinks nonetheless of you.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9r2pEdc1_lI#t=2s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WbQuYgPrM0k#t=12s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZs-e_x0PGM&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]

once again


I always do.

In the instance cited...no mistake on my part.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 08:39 am
@laughoutlood,
laughoutlood wrote:

Frank, when you make a mistake, correct yourself and move on,
everyone thinks nonetheless of you.
That is good philosophy.
Your mistake, was a run on sentence.

That happens a lot in this forum.





David
JTT
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 01:50 pm
@Frank Apisa,
Quote:
Think it over...and see if you can see the difference between the two statements.


That's not an explanation, Frank.
JTT
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 01:58 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:
That is good philosophy.


That you have never followed, Sig.

Quote:
Your mistake, was a run on sentence.

That happens a lot in this forum.


There's a good reason these happen a lot in this forum. It's because they are as natural as rainwater. The writing here is simply speech put to letters.

Run on sentences are things that teachers unduly focus on because they know little about language and they have to fill up teaching hours.

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Frank Apisa
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 02:41 pm
@JTT,
JTT wrote:

Quote:
Think it over...and see if you can see the difference between the two statements.


That's not an explanation, Frank.


No, but it is good advice.
JTT
 
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Sat 29 Jun, 2013 02:50 pm
@Frank Apisa,
Quote:
No, but it is good advice.


It could be, Frank, if it came from someone that was even half ways knowledgeable about how language works.

Someone knowledgeable about how language works would be able to provide a suitable explanation for the proposition he advanced.
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