• MudMan@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    It’s an awkward phrase in either version, but when I first encountered the original it was an immediate “Oh, so that’s what it’s supposed to mean” moment, so now I default to that. If people were shamed into abandoning “couldn’t care less” we can make this happen.

    My pendantry is either a sneaky precision strike or a carpet bombing, no half measures.

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      16 days ago

      shamed into abandoning “couldn’t care less”

      Um, isn’t that the correct form? If you couldn’t care less, then you care the absolute minimum amount.

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        Hah. I’ve internalized it so much I couldn’t even bring myself to write it the other way on purpose. I’m not even editing that :D