[ExI] Putting a face with the name

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 12:44:03 UTC 2019


On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 00:33, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Which might lead some to ask the snarky question: Where do you waste
> > time then? ;)
>
> I could care less. :P
>
> An odddity in the English language (meaning the people who use it), where
> two opposite statements are taken by many to mean the same thing:  'could
> care less', 'could not care less'
>

“Could care less” is just a mistake, with its origin probably due to people
mumbling when saying “couldn’t”.
-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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