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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.14 18:55:00 -
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"I could care less" is sarcasm.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.14 19:24:00 -
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Edited by: Adonis 4174 on 14/06/2007 19:26:58
 Originally by: Alpha Agent
Originally by: Adonis 4174
Given that "I could care less" is an insult...
No, it's not.
The correct phrase "I couldn't care less" is coined to mean "I don't care".
"I could care less" technically means "I do care a little", which simply makes no sense.
There is no form of sarcasm in either of these statements.
The correct phrase "I could care less" is an insult implying through sarcasm that you could not care less.
I will be charitable and assume you don't understand sarcasm. Have a nice day.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.14 20:32:00 -
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Edited by: Adonis 4174 on 14/06/2007 20:31:18
The problem, Alpha, is that you are wrong in a material respect and you refuse to acknowledge this. There are two grammatically correct ways to use "I could care less." alone to denote a lack of interest. The first is sarcasm, best defined by Angellyne above. The second is as an aposiopesis.
If you don't know what that long word means, it's what you do when you tell someone "Stop it or else." - that is not a complete sentence but it is grammatically correct. Likewise, "I could care less." can mean what Montague Zooma said above. Either way the message is clear. The message is "Shut up, I don't want to hear this".
Denying this because it weakens your standing makes you seem arrogant as well as ignorant. As was said above, English is a complex* language, so not knowing every detail of it is hardly a source of shame. Let that point slide, I'm with you on the rest.
*The term I usually use would be caught by the censorbot. It begins with a B and means mixed.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.14 21:50:00 -
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Toon makes me think of furry fetishism and that upsets me.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.14 22:40:00 -
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By the way, Cambridge university never carried out the research claimed.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.14 23:07:00 -
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How's about a compromise?
If you care about people reading what you have to say, put effort into saying it properly. If not, don't. Your call.
If you want to whine about people not typing things properly, get a life and stop wasting effort reading stuff people can't be bothered to type properly.
As for easily readable, I got a message recently saying "thanks for no going shops" - care to guess what this person was wittering about?
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.15 12:57:00 -
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So correctly we should replace the word Bonus with Bonum and let the plural be Bona
Or we can keep abusing the words we adopt into our own language and keep it as is.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.06.15 13:19:00 -
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That is a very good reason to leave bonus the hell alone.
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