[ SECRET POST #2718 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2718 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[a_potato]

I'm just really excited that you wrote "couldn't care less," because the incorrect construction ("could care less") has become so typical that seeing the correct one gives me a bizarre, pathetic sort of thrill.

...I suddenly feel like the OP of #1.

[vethica]

It's colloquially acceptable.

[a_potato]

BUT NOT GRAMMATICALLY!!!!

*incoherent nerd rage*

[(Anonymous)]

There are a lot of things that are acceptable grammatically now that were not previously. That is the way of a living language such as English.

[a_potato]

Yeah yeah, I know.

It's so odd, because I can be all about the dynamic nature of language one minute and all ragey about someone not following current forms the next.

It's like, descriptivism is necessary because it keeps a language from dying, but prescriptivism is also necessary because it helps us to understand one another. I don't know where to strike the balance, but I sure do love grammar.

[(Anonymous)]

But 'could care less' is less an issue of grammar, and more of the actual meaning of each individual word. Like, you can say that 'could care less' as a whole phrase colloquially means the same thing as 'couldn't care less', but you can't say that it has somehow become a grammatically accepted.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not acceptable to me.

[(Anonymous)]

But then you'd be disagreeing with David Mitchell, and that would be just terrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

[(Anonymous)]

Who's David Mitchell?
(I also hate "could care less," btw)

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

British Comedian. Don't know a whole lot about him, other than he occasionally appears on QI and is a team leader on Would I Lie to You, both British game shows where the contestants are comedians.