Some could... I couldn't!

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cecilia wrote:

Wilse wrote:

I've always taken "I could care less" as being incorrect, in the same way that you'll notice many people, again mostly North Americans, using "more then" where "more than" would be correct.

"I could care less" is New York slang. It means "I don't care at all". It's all in HOW it's said, however. which is something i can't convey in a post. Although rolling one's eyes probabaly helps show ones complete disinterest.  :roll:

or confusion :crazy:

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cecilia wrote:
oh, no, there's NO confusion when a New Yorker says they 'could care less'. there's ABSOLUTELY no problem being able to see the revoltion of being asked to be interested in a topic that one is clearly NOT interested in.

really.

Although rolling one's eyes probabaly helps show ones complete disinterest. :roll:

 
should have clarified

see eyes :-)
see eyes roll :roll:
see eyes rolling  :crazy:

i was just messin' with ya.  

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Karlos wrote:
From the way Cecilia puts it, seems to me like the NY version of the expression could be a contraction of a rhetorical question; something like "(As if) I could care less?", maybe?

bingo!!!

at least that is true here in georgis.

things like this spread like a plague here in the us DUDE!

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Karlos wrote:
The best commentary on NY language was given by Donald Sutherland's character in Kelly's Heroes when addressing one of their group regarding the storming of the town where the bank is guarded:

"To a New Yorker like you, a 'hero' is some weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three tigers!"

(as in Tiger Tanks, that is)

ah man my second favorite movie

"knock it off with the negative waves!"