I COULD care less?!?!?

[Nemo128]

What the heck is it with people saying "I could care less."

Think about it. If you COULD, that means you have SOME care! People, listen, for the last freagin time, it's:

I COULD NOT CARE LESS

or

I COULDN'T CARE LESS

Why? Because it means you do not contain a single smidgen of concern for whatever is being referenced! You are at the very bottom on the caring scale! You have reached the absolute kelvin on the caring temperature scale! Corpses should have equal or greater caring than you at that point!!!

And ya know what? If no one reads this at all, or people just flame, I COULDN'T CARE LESS. Time to go home. :)

[Alex2507]

Same difference. :D

[jostenmeat]

Irregardless. :)

[bandphan]

http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2252675128e1d00f48ce708fe0002-500pi

[CraigV]

Both are valid. Saying “I could care less” is meant to be said with a fair amount of sarcasm, so as to punctuate the fact that you have said “could” instead of “couldn’t”


Now on the other hand, I live in a state where people say “can you borrow me some money”?:mad:

[Now Slappy]

Both are valid. Saying “I could care less” is meant to be said with a fair amount of sarcasm, so as to punctuate the fact that you have said “could” instead of “couldn’t”


Now on the other hand, I live in a state where people say “can you borrow me some money”?:mad:

Craig, I bet that state is Minnesota.

Am I right?:D

[CraigV]

Craig, I bet that state is Minnesota.

Am I right?:D

Ya shur, youbetchya! The land of 10,00 lakes, and:

Rubber binders (instead of rubber bands)

Pop (not soda)

Go/bring with…(without you, me, them, us)

Italian (pronounced Eyetalian)

A sled is really a snowmobile

Moving here from Philly, I wasn’t aware I would have to take a remedial English course

[bandphan]

http://www.versuscountry.com/images/assets/al%20Lindner.jpgYa shur, youbetchya! The land of 10,00 lakes, and:

Rubber binders (instead of rubber bands)

Pop (not soda)

Go/bring with…(without you, me, them, us)

Italian (pronounced Eyetalian)

A sled is really a snowmobile

Moving here from Philly, I wasn’t aware I would have to take a remedial English course

[Now Slappy]

Ya shur, youbetchya! The land of 10,00 lakes, and:

Rubber binders (instead of rubber bands)

Pop (not soda)

Go/bring with…(without you, me, them, us)

Italian (pronounced Eyetalian)

A sled is really a snowmobile

Moving here from Philly, I wasn’t aware I would have to take a remedial English course

I just found it funny. One of my bartenders is from Minnesota and he's always trying to "borrow" me new DVD's that he's bought.

(I have two little kids and a business to run so he usually has seen/bought new releases before I can.)

[MDS]

The distinction is minor and really either can be used although 'I couldn't care less' is the proper form to indicate that your level of care is so low that it couldn't possibly be lower (which is usually what the person saying it really meant to convey).

That doesn't bother me all that much but ridiculous grammar and spelling is comical.

It seems very few people know the difference between similar words:
to vs too vs two
lose vs loose (my all time favorite)
there vs their vs they're
...and on and on

On one particular forum I browse where the IQ is particularly low, a poster was complaining about another poster and said 'I sent you a PM reguarding our sale'. That's pathetic and yet hilarious at the same time.

[jostenmeat]

That doesn't bother me all that much but ridiculous grammar and spelling is comical.

It seems very few people know the difference between similar words:
to vs too vs two
lose vs loose (my all time favorite)
there vs their vs they're
...and on and on


I feel you, MDS. Some posters elsewhere even have these distinctions as their "sig", lol.

Sometimes I think the mistakes come from laziness. Then other times I do believe they are completely unaware of the distinctions.

In defense of a few* mistakes that occur, I do find myself typing very quickly at times, and do end up typing the wrong word simply due to muscle memory, believe it or not. For instance, for a while there, EVERYTIME I wanted to type/say "possible", I kept typing "possibly".

Another one that people should be aware of, at an audio forum of all places, is the distinction between "base" and "bass".


** you're not going to believe this: Just previewed my post, and I typed "possibly" TWICE. See, I'm not lying! :p

EDIT: I think another contributing factor towards poor grammar might be the increasing number of folks who are posting with something like a crackberry or iphone.

[MDS]

In defense of a few* mistakes that occur, I do find myself typing very quickly at times, and do end up typing the wrong word simply due to muscle memory, believe it or not. For instance, for a while there, EVERYTIME I wanted to type/say "possible", I kept typing "possibly".

That happens to me sometimes too. I just typed a reply about digitizing an LP and as usual I typed 'phone pre-amp' instead of 'phono pre-amp'. But, I caught the mistake and fixed it before I submitted the reply.

I see 'defiantly' (for 'definitely') all too often and that cannot possibly be a simple typo.

[CraigV]

Too many people do not know which words to use, and have trouble deciding between two different words.

They’re likely to get hung up on words they’ve picked up here and there in their lives.

I accept that this happens often, except when it’s usually a matter of just not paying attention.

It’s been brought to my attention that some of these people should have bought a dictionary.

[j_garcia]

Who gives a fork? :D

There are a lot of these on forums and in general out there. We had a pet peeve thread here some time back about misused and misspelled terms such as DefinAtely.

IRREGARDLESS is actually a word!! Someone should be shot for that one.

[jostenmeat]

I am terrible. I will put forth more effort in typing with better grammar, and spelling.

EVERYTIME is not a word. :o

I just typed this today, at this subforum:
Is a "xxx" and "xxx" considered to be mutually exclusive? :o

I then immediately caught grammatical mistakes in AH articles. :eek:

I have a bad habit of forming incomplete sentences. For instance, I typed this today: "The annoying thing will be getting up to mess with volume. Unless you were lucky enough to . . . "

I think, at least just partially, I originally did this to make my texts/posts easier to read. It unfortunately has become simple habit. I will try to type fewer incomplete sentences! :o

Thanks for the thread. :o

[Nemo128]

I thought it would be fun to see what everyone thinks. :)

[Now Slappy]

Frankly it doesn't bother me, but I was never very good at English. You would think that three years of Latin would've helped...nope.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o46/natalya_dostova/Funnies/469758086_051b1dd752.jpg

http://motivationalpic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/grammar_nazi2.jpg

[Davemcc]

The one that always gets me is when people say Wala when they mean to say voilà. 99% of the time, it's kids that I think genuinely have no idea what the word is supposed to be.

Carry on.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/Fanra/grammar-nazi.jpg

[jostenmeat]

I've got one more, and this is an extremely common mistake.

It’s vs. Its

“It’s” is a contraction of “it is” or “it has.” “Its” is a possessive pronoun.

I can understand the laziness of omitting the apostrophe when intending to say the the contraction of "it is." However, it cannot be laziness when someone mistakenly uses it's for a possessive pronoun.

Oh, I've done that one a lot, too. :o I've been much better about that for some time now. :D

I fear it now will take twice the time to type up my posts! :eek::o

[jostenmeat]

I've got one more, and this is an extremely common mistake.

It’s vs. Its

“It’s” is a contraction of “it is” or “it has.” “Its” is a possessive pronoun.

I can understand the laziness of omitting the apostrophe when intending to say the the contraction of "it is." However, it cannot be laziness when someone mistakenly uses it's for a possessive pronoun.

Oh, I've done that one a lot too. :o I've been much better about that for some time now. :D

I fear it now will take twice the time to type up my posts! :eek::o

EDIT: In response to Dave's post, I actually had the opposite impression. I thought "wala" and "walla" were kind of funny (and so I thought they were intended). The funnier version, to me, and it happens a lot, is Viola!

[lsiberian]

[QUOTE=MDS;554486]
It seems very few people know the difference between similar words:
on and on
[QUOTE]

What's the difference between on and on again? :) I didn't do it. It was the monkey he made me.

[Nemo128]

Mistakes like that don't bother me. It's errors in logic. If someone actually does mean "I could", then it's understandable.

I still don't know why anyone would say "I could"... someone suggested sarcasm. I think it's just poor judgement of intention... or PEBCAK.

[j_garcia]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/jgarcia14/Funny/inurforum.jpg

[Now Slappy]

"All your base are belong to us..."

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[gmichael]

Is than better then then?:D

[Nemo128]

I have an avatar now! YAY!

[Davemcc]

EDIT: In response to Dave's post, I actually had the opposite impression. I thought "wala" and "walla" were kind of funny (and so I thought they were intended). The funnier version, to me, and it happens a lot, is Viola!

Don't get me wrong, I think it's kind of funny too. I get a chuckle out of it maybe because we were forced to learn French up here and I know the difference between voilà and voici.

[jostenmeat]

Frankly it doesn't bother me, but I was never very good at English. You would think that three years of Latin would've helped...nope.

Yeah. Our "accepted" mistakes become part of the language. Actually, there are the "prescriptivist" and "descriptivist" schools. There are even different dictionaries for them. Merriam-Webster is descriptivist, AFAIK. If you asked a prescriptivist if "irregardless" was a word, they would probably tell you that it is not.

There is always change in our language, but it just happens faster with descriptivism.

What is also funny to me is how the "spell-check" implemented on forums underline in red some words I think are spelled correctly. I barely pay any attention to the red markings.

[j_garcia]

"All your base are belong to us..."

All your Base was a translation problem (Japanese to English), and it is still quite funny today. It is technically not bad grammar, just a good example of why you don't let someone who sucks at the other language (or a piece of software) do your translating for you.

Hehe, I had it in the funny pics thread, but now it is relevant here:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/jgarcia14/Funny/sparta.gif

[Now Slappy]

All your Base was a translation problem (Japanese to English), and it is still quite funny today. It is technically not bad grammar, just a good example of why you don't let someone who sucks at the other language (or a piece of software) do your translating for you.

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1155/technovikingtg5.jpg

[jostenmeat]

I find it amusing and ironic that my very first double post anywhere happens in this thread. :p :o:o:o :eek: :D

[Nemo128]

Rofl!!!!!!

[Now Slappy]

I find it amusing and ironic that my very first double post anywhere happens in this thread. :p :o:o:o :eek: :D


Speaking of "ironic"....



* Paging Alanis Morissette.....Alanis Morissette to a white courtesy phone*

[Adam]

I could care less.

[jostenmeat]

I could care less.

Now THEIR is a post that is to funny too me, because its definately bassed on the thread title, ironically. Hahaha . . . VIOLA!

Irregardless if its like the same difference between wala and walla.

Adam, u wanna borrow me nice fat green chicklet?

[Adam]

Adam, u wanna borrow me nice fat green chicklet?

Oh, no - now I need to read part of the thread over again to remember what that means. :D