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.

 

[jostenmeat]

Irregardless.

 

[bandphan]

 

[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”?

 

[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”?

Craig, I bet that state is Minnesota.

Am I right?

 

[CraigV]

Craig, I bet that state is Minnesota.

Am I right?

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]

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

 

[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!

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?

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.

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

I then immediately caught grammatical mistakes in AH articles.

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!

Thanks for the thread.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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. I've been much better about that for some time now.

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

 

[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. I've been much better about that for some time now.

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

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!