I could care less if someone wants to use their cell on a plane, but being stuck next to a person on a flight who will jabber endlessly will be annoying. If they establish some sort of a small, partially soundproof area then people can yak away all they want. Just don't do it next to me.
What the hell is with this plague of 'I could care less' usage? It is 'I couldn't care less'. For God's sake, 'I could care less' makes no bloody sense. Dam kids.......
@BobTurbo, In a sense you are correct. I assume that he meant that there was no possible way to care any more, thus the "I couldnt care less" ... however it is still correct to say "I could care less" meaning it is possible to care less about the topic than you already do.
For example I could care less about the cell phone issue where I couldn't care less to hear another long iPhone, mac vs pc debate or some other topic we get so inundated with here
"I'm a college student looking for a new laptop, but almost all of my media I receive digitally. I'm looking for a laptop, not a netbook, without an optical drive, and budget sensitive. The optical drive will just be a waste of space, when I can have thinner laptop. What's out there?"
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I could care less if someone wants to use their cell on a plane, but being stuck next to a person on a flight who will jabber endlessly will be annoying. If they establish some sort of a small, partially soundproof area then people can yak away all they want. Just don't do it next to me.
I like your suggestion of a soundproof area for cellphone talkers.
Perhaps out on the wing...
What the hell is with this plague of 'I could care less' usage? It is 'I couldn't care less'. For God's sake, 'I could care less' makes no bloody sense. Dam kids.......
I suggest the "Cone of Silence" that Get Smart had.
@Jon Acheson, way to improve my idea :)
@BobTurbo, thank you for the correction, i honestly didn't know. And i am 26
@BobTurbo, In a sense you are correct. I assume that he meant that there was no possible way to care any more, thus the "I couldnt care less" ... however it is still correct to say "I could care less" meaning it is possible to care less about the topic than you already do.
For example I could care less about the cell phone issue where I couldn't care less to hear another long iPhone, mac vs pc debate or some other topic we get so inundated with here
Just throwing out that perspective …
@BobTurbo
THANK you. I was about to put that. Everytime I see someone write "I could care less", I want to start smashing my face on the keyboard.
Saying "I could care less" means that you DO care about it. So many people make that mistake.
Think about it...
BobTurbo can't get no satisfaction
I wondered about that misuse of a figure of speech for a while. Finally I looked it up.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
As I suspected, saying "I could care less" is just wrong. Problem with English is, if enough people say something wrongly, it becomes correct.
Well, "could" means that you "could", "can", or "might", and not "do".
So, "I could care less" would mean "I can care less", etc.