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Re: Some could... I couldn't!
« on: March 28, 2006, 09:16:15 PM »
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?
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Re: Some could... I couldn't!
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2006, 11:28:33 PM »
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)
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