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The Online Grammar/Spelling Commissar has spoken!
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)If so, he would've been the first real grammar nazi.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)hatrack
(59,596 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)Google the term both ways and report back on hits.
sl8
(13,949 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)hatrack
(59,596 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,924 posts)No, you couldn't care less! If you could care less that means you still care a little bit.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,228 posts)Bucky
(54,087 posts)It was one of those books about common misconceptions.
The argument went that people saying "I could care less" were being sarcastic, just like people who say "I'm dying over here" when they're laughing or "I'm so amused" when they're not. As in "Oh, I could care less..."
I don't buy it. People who don't care are going to be direct, not clever. Also, people who "could care less" are too stupid to do sarcasm right.
Ohiya
(2,246 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)It's "give free rein to (something)", not "give free reign to (something)".
ashling
(25,771 posts)I give you free reign
a kennedy
(29,738 posts)sl8
(13,949 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)What does "The proof is in the pudding" even MEAN??
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Something terrible happened.
sl8
(13,949 posts)Now I've got something else to be annoyed with, thankyouverymuch.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Bucky
(54,087 posts)Aristus
(66,484 posts)Proof that the document was no longer legible.
Ha!!
You just made my day... for all intensive purposes
ashling
(25,771 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,390 posts)Response to hatrack (Original post)
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Iggo
(47,580 posts)Unless you're talking about this guy.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Long Road to go
OR
Long Row to hoe
or does it depend on where you grew up