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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
I could care less is meant to be sarcastic. It's generally said with the wrong inflection though. It should be I COULD care less. Meaning if I tried really hard I can theoretically conceive of a way to care even less than I do now. It's like "Way to go Einstein",which is a phrase never used in a complimentary fashion even though Einstein is a universally understood avatar of genius.
That certainly is a possible use of it, but I'd wager that 95%+ of those who use it are not doing so in that way. And 100% of people who I've heard saying it, unless they're truly terrible at delivering sarcasm.
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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
For all "intensive purpose"..... I could care less and I couldn't care less mean the same thing.
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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
Hopefully you now understand why I didn't have a lot to say on "could care less"-- it's boring. Not sure what your problem is though.
No problem, I was just pointing out that you had taken us off on a weird tangent. The reason it got so long is that you weren't especially clear with anyone that you were doing so.
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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
And people still do say "couldn't care less" so it's not like it's some hypothetical statement.
And it should be "could care more" because that's completely unambiguous.
LOL, no. But at this point I assume you're doing this intentionally, so while I'll respond in case you really are serious, I'll try to keep this very brief and not get sucked into another LB tangent.
"I couldn't care less", in the context discussed, is not at all ambiguous. It tends to be extremely clear when someone says "I couldn't care less" and mean that they don't care. "Could care more" is not even close to the same thing. If I don't care, I could care more. If I care a little, I could care more. If I care quite a bit, I could still care more. "could care more" is very ambiguous.
If you want to continue arguing that point, I'll leave it to others as this is really getting silly and at this point I'm kind of sorry about my part in it.