"I Could Care Less"

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-20-2012, 06:50 PM

I'd like to add people who spell 'Rediculous' to this thread as people who should be shot.

**Janszoon** · 11-20-2012, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo

Does this phrase annoy anyone else?

Example
"I could care less about that bastard"

This makes NO sense. I hear people saying it on tv and shows all the time, and it annoys me.

If you could care less about someone then that means that you don't fully disregard them, that you could actually care less about them, another words you still don't fully dislike or hate them.

"I couldn't care less about that bastard" is the correct phrase.

to that phrase.

Yes! That one bugs me too.

Another is when people say "hence why". "Hence" essentially means "that is why" all by itself, folks. When you add the "why" in there, you are then saying "that is why why". It sounds fucking ridiculous.

Neapolitan · 11-20-2012, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo

Does this phrase annoy anyone else?

Example
"I could care less about that bastard"

This makes NO sense. I hear people saying it on tv and shows all the time, and it annoys me.

That one doesn't bother me. "I could care..." makes you think well what is the threshold that a person suddenly becomes caring, then it crosses the line back into the don't care zone by ending it with "... less about the bastard." The sentence begins with hope but ends terse grumpiness.

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo

If you could care less about someone then that means that you don't fully disregard them, that you could actually care less about them, another words you still don't fully dislike or hate them.

"I couldn't care less about that bastard" is the correct phrase.

to that phrase.

In a way I disagree. A person saying they don't care is expressing apathy not that they are not fully disliking or hating. To quote Elie Wiesel:

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Originally Posted by Elie Wiesel

the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference; for at a minimum, to love or hate someone is to have intense emotions toward them.

Phrases that bother me are the ones that are illogical statements, or mixed metaphors the ones that make me waste timing trying to figure out what the heck the person is trying tp say.
"Noone" It's actually "no one." Writing it without the space makes it look look like Olde English for "noon."
Agree to disagree. It can't be both.
The same difference. An endless loop of contradiction.
Not my cup of meat. I hate that one, it's either "it's not my cup of tea" or "one man's meat is another man's poison." No one has meat in their cup....no one.
From the gecko. It's "from the get-go." I'm sure a tiny lizard isn't starting trouble eg "I didn't like him from the gecko."

Other mixed metaphors that I could care very little about:

We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
You could have knocked me over with a fender.
He was watching me like I was a hawk.
I’ll get it by hook or ladder.
He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.
They’re diabolically opposed.
He received a decease and desist order.
I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.
Take a flying hike.
I shot the wind out of his saddle.
He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.
A loose tongue spoils the broth.
It’s all moth-eared.
I can read him like the back of my book.
From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
He’s like a duck out of water.
These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.
I hope he gets his curve ball straightened out.
It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.
He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
You can’t change the spots on an old dog.
It sticks out like a sore throat.
It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
People are dying like hotcakes.
He’s a little green behind the ears.
You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.
We have to get all our ducks on the same page.
The fan is gonna hit the roof.
I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
I'm sweating like a bullet.
She’s suffering from a detached rectum.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't gather moss.
Don't get all of your eggs out of two bushes.
It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
Right there on the tip of my brain.
A leopard can't change his stripes.
A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

Freebase Dali · 11-20-2012, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger ?

I'd like to add people who spell 'Rediculous' to this thread as people who should be shot.

Holy sh*t, yes.

I even hate the people who say it that way, which is probably the reason they spell it that way. I hear it constantly here in the south of the U.S. The proper American English pronunciation of it has an "ih" sound and not an "ee" sound. (You would think they would make the connection to "ridicule", but no.) Both "i" letters should be pronounced the same (according to how we've come together and decided on how we should uniformly butcher the Queen's English as a general standard), so when I hear people saying "ree-dic-you-lus", I automatically know that they spell it wrong.

PoorOldPo · 11-20-2012, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by gunnels

We have two threads devoted to bitching, ya know.

Well go ahead and bitch about it in the bitch thread!

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

I could care less about this thread.

I knew someone would do that. Argh!!!!(in an angry Southern Irish accent)

Also, to all Americans

It is called Aluminium, not Aluminum!

And COLOUR! Not Color.

Argh!!!!(in an angry Southern Irish accent)

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

In a way I disagree. A person saying they don't care is expressing apathy not that they are not fully disliking or hating. To quote Elie Wiesel:

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I could not care any less about the person, anothers i care so little about that person, that the not caring about that person has reached its not caring human limit.

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Other mixed metaphors that I could care very little about:

Other mixed metaphors you care very little about, not could. Could is not definitive.

Trollheart · 11-20-2012, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Phrases that bother me are the ones that are illogical statements, or mixed metaphors the ones that make me waste timing trying to figure out what the heck the person is trying tp say.
"Noone" It's actually "no one." Writing it without the space makes it look look like Olde English for "noon."

Actually, to be really pedantic (something in which I shine) it's no-one. You have to put in the hyphen. It's not one word, unless you're speaking of a choice as in, "no one contestant was better than the other". However I do agree that noone is nothing more than a surname, as far as I know.

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From the gecko. It's "from the get-go." I'm sure a tiny lizard isn't starting trouble eg "I didn't like him from the gecko."

Meh, could be this guy!

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Other mixed metaphors that I could care very little about:

We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
You could have knocked me over with a fender.
He was watching me like I was a hawk.
I’ll get it by hook or ladder.
He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.
They’re diabolically opposed.
He received a decease and desist order.
I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.
Take a flying hike.
I shot the wind out of his saddle.
He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.
A loose tongue spoils the broth.
It’s all moth-eared.
I can read him like the back of my book.
From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
He’s like a duck out of water.
These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.
I hope he gets his curve ball straightened out.
It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.
He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
You can’t change the spots on an old dog.
It sticks out like a sore throat.
It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
People are dying like hotcakes.
He’s a little green behind the ears.
You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.
We have to get all our ducks on the same page.
The fan is gonna hit the roof.
I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
I'm sweating like a bullet.
She’s suffering from a detached rectum.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't gather moss.
Don't get all of your eggs out of two bushes.
It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
Right there on the tip of my brain.
A leopard can't change his stripes.
A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

Oh admit it: you made all of those up, didn't you? People could NOT be so stupid. Unless you can show me at least one example where even one of those was used in a real context, I'm going to have to assume you're being super-ironic (don't you also hate it when people prefix the word "super" to things? Like, it really super-annoys me...!)

Newkie · 11-20-2012, 07:25 PM

People saying FYI.

For your information is bad enough. But FYI? Makes my blood boil that one. (Apologies if that is a metaphor on anyone's list)

PoorOldPo · 11-20-2012, 07:27 PM

Well at least that metaphor makes sense.

Freebase Dali · 11-20-2012, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo

Also, to all Americans

It is called Aluminium, not Aluminum!

And COLOUR! Not Color.

Argh!!!!(in an angry Southern Irish accent)

We Americans actually have a different standard for English than you guys, understandably. It's considered correct to spell it as Aluminum here. In fact, the guy who discovered Aluminum actually named it that at one point, before changing it to Aluminium. The dictionary we used at the time still had the Aluminum entry and just became more ingrained. Then eventually, in 1925 actually, the American Chemical Society officially named it Aluminum, seeing as how it was becoming more commonly used, so that's what we say, since it's all up in our textbooks and all.

So, in that case, it isn't simply Americans completely not seeing the letters of the word they're pronouncing. We spell it, and say it, as Aluminum.

As far as colour vs color, I don't know much about the history behind that, but I do know that our official word for it is color, not colour. (Whether that makes as much sense as having a different voltage standard and measuring scale and temperature scale as the rest of the world, I don't know.)

So for that, I'll just quote something I picked up off a grammar website just now:

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Both spellings are many centuries old. Color, now regarded as the American spelling, in fact predates the United States by several centuries. In early use they vied for ascendancy with several other spellings. Colur, culoure, and coolor, for instance, were all in the mix before the modern British spelling gained permanent dominance in the 17th century.1 The American preference for color took hold in the middle 19th century thanks in large part to the work of American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose spelling books and dictionaries were instrumental in shaping American English as we know it today.

Hope that all at least introduces the idea that Americans aren't simply going to English class and refusing to accept spelling things with extra U's in them.

Newkie · 11-20-2012, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo

Well at least that metaphor makes sense.

Yeah, I like to "keep it real"

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