Quite frankly, I could care less!

[snowdropsandcrocuses]

It's not 'could care less'. It's 'couldn't care less'.

Because you are saying you care so little about something that you couldn't even care less than you already do, it makes sense. Please. Stop using 'could care less'

The responses to this thread will have me on tenterhooks!

[quote MysteryofEdwinDroog]@80sMum I was always an “another thing coming”-er, but as a sort of second or third degree mis-hearer; I’d read it many, many times in books and print from previous generations who I assume misheard it, and it was only as an adult I’d discovered the thing/think debate.

Despite growing up with “thing” and seeing v reputable authors use it, I’m grudgingly admitting evidence tends towards “think” being the original.

(But language evolves, so does that mean “thing” is now an acceptable variant? ducks and runs)[/quote]
If you think about it, ‘another thing coming’ is hardly ever going to make sense.

The right version could often apply in the frequent MN context of
CF-ery, e.g. ‘If she really thinks I’m going to be taken for a mug yet again, she’s got another think coming.’

Any excuse to flag up Weird Al.
He refers to “could care less” somewhere in this:

Is it post about annoying language day today, this the second thread I've seen in the normal topics, maybe there are others in the pedants' topic.

They both seem to be full of exactly the same common errors that people make.

I've only ever heard could care less said by Americans and it does confirm the stupid stereotype as they can't see that it means the complete opposite of what they are trying to say

"From the gecko"...

Dave Gorman had a great segment about incorrect sayings in one of his episodes of Modern Life Is Goodish.

"I can't be asked"

I was chuckling at someone who said this the other day (not in front of them of course) and DS1 (17) asked "what was wrong with it?" He also thought it was "I can't be asked". I'm asking for a refund on school fees as a result of their failure to teach my child that it's "I can't be arsed".

So I see a lot of grammatical corrections like the good old there, their, they're but could care less if a new one that I've been seeing a lot lately.

It's such a ridiculous phrase but it really gets me riled!