It's COULDNT care less!!! Aarrrgghhh

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After about the 15th time this week reading "they could care less" I feel like I'm losing my mind!

When did this start?
Why are people getting it wrong?!

IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE PEOPLE

Bangs head on table

See I can live with that, because the second part changes the entire meaning.

Sorry, OP, your glee is misplaced. In this context, "Muphry" is the correct spelling.

That makes it make more sense, but I still do not approve.

It just doesn't make proper sense to me

It bugs me so much too!!! Means the opposite and makes them look stupid 😅

My recollection is that the phrase "I couldn't care less!" used to be very common.

A new generation changed it to be a question - " I could care less?" with the lift at the end of the sentence we use in spoken word to indicate a question.

The question bit then got lost, and here we are.

Ha, I had to google that wondering whether I’d been saying Murphy’s Law wrongly the whole time.

I thought it was Murphy’s law…..

LOL at this! 😆

I agree, saying 'I could care less' (to mean you don't care about something,) sounds daft, as it makes no sense. But the irony of you getting the 'correct' version wrong in the thread title is priceless! 😂

Oh my days I’ve just googled Muphrys law that’s fantastic!!!

Bang harder...

But you have got 'couldn't' wrong. (In the title!) You missed an apostrophe!

Can you not see the hilarious irony in this? 😆

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@teddyclown Came to post this but you beat me to it!

But the "proper grammar" always looks good!!
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I agree that it's bollocks and makes no grammatical sense at all, Americanism or not.

Yours is pretty ironic too!

I actually scared to post this because I just know there will be a mistake! 😂

Yet another Americanism. Everything over there makes its way over here before long!

Has anyone seen Wicked? This exchange happens:

Glinda: I could care less what others think. Elphaba: Couldn't.
Glinda: What?
Elphaba: You couldn't care less what other people think. Though, I... I doubt that.

That just means you care a little, when you’re trying to say you don’t care at all.

There is also Murphy's Law - that says if something can go wrong, it will go wrong.

The Americanism card can be played to justify different spellings, but not to justify people being too dim to work out the meaning of the words they're using.

Not the point of the thread but I'd never heard the expression " my bad" until the last week or so. It's been on at least 3 MN recent threads.I'd never heard it before and had to look up what it meant.
Is that an Americanism and when did people start using it so frequently?

Doesn’t irk me as much as draw instead of drawer 😂

I immediately thought of David Mitchell‘s rant, but I see someone beat me to it.

While we’re at it with annoying American phrases that are infiltrating our vernacular, can people stop saying ‘pissed’ when they mean ‘pissed OFF’?

Yes, obviously.