There's a Character Limit Now?

There is?

 

Wouldn't that be couldn't care less, then? I always get confused between could care less and couldn't care less.

 

I'm just upset with the 50 character limit on usertitles- I can't change mine now, I have to rebel against the system >: D

 

Need to ditch these maximum limits, go talk to the blues for us.

 

oh no

 

I will and I'll make them an offer that they won't be able to refuse >)

 

Well, I can't see this being a problem for me.

 

Amaury, did you actually swear or did you genuinely just type out four asterisks?

 

I already explained this to you. It's an idiom, a colloquialism, a meme. Call it whatever you want, it's a commonly used phrase that means something other than what it should normally mean. This is conversational English. Learn it.

 

Grammatically, they mean the opposite, though. Whenever I hear someone say "I could care less," I die a little inside (and English isn't even my first language).

 

It doesn't matter. There are many other phrases like it that don't really mean what they say but rather what people have decided they mean. Like, "the long and short of it is" actually means nothing, because the grammar is incorrect. People still used it for years and understood each other.

It is correct idiomatically instead of technically. The only reason I bring this up at all, is because this is conversational English we're speaking in, not formal English and the rules are different, more lax, for this kind of communication. So you're really just being pretentious when you point out formal errors in an informal setting. The two are as separate as can be, just learn to live with it.

 

I wasn't pointing it out to correct, but because I was confused. However, I believe couldn't would be correct.

From watching an episode of Victorious a few days ago, "could" implies you do care or could care less or something of that nature.

 

You're still looking at it from the wrong perspective. The words "I could care less" mean that you can indeed care less. The phrase "I could care less" means "I could not care less." That's perfectly acceptable conversational English because the full phrase is a part of the cultural consciousness. Foreign speakers usually don't get it because they don't have that same background. But if you are a native English speaker in America and you don't get it, you probably lived under a very heavy boulder.

Also, it doesn't imply anything, it straight means it.

 

how terrible.
i think i may surely shit a treehouse.

 

I stopped giving a crap after the administrator posted

 

Then what does "I couldn't care less" mean?

 

What it says on the tin. It is not an indexed phrase in the cultural lexicon.

 

If I made a thread like this, it would reach 3 posts and die.

Curse your skills, Amaury!

 

derrp .

EDIT: Test complete.

 

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