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**merloermfgj** · 08-19-2012, 06:35 AM

Most Americans know it's a logic fail, but it's an idiom over there. We have loads of them in the UK as well. The problem is that it's really frustrating to read when you don't know that it's an idiom.

No one would know its an idiom because thats not what an idiom is. the phrase i couldnt care less is not figurative as in an idiom, it is literal. if you couldn't care less about something you have no interest in it

I could care less is a contradiction of i couldnt care less. One states no interest the other states an arbitrary level of interest but none the less still an interest.

Using a literal phrase when one actually means its contradiction is not an idiom. It is however idiocy. In my experience anyone who says i could care less to me does in fact mean they couldnt care less but simply does not understand the definition so there in, not understanding the difference.

08-19-2012, 06:35 AM	#16
merloermfgj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	Most Americans know it's a logic fail, but it's an idiom over there. We have loads of them in the UK as well. The problem is that it's really frustrating to read when you don't know that it's an idiom. No one would know its an idiom because thats not what an idiom is. the phrase i couldnt care less is not figurative as in an idiom, it is literal. if you couldn't care less about something you have no interest in it I could care less is a contradiction of i couldnt care less. One states no interest the other states an arbitrary level of interest but none the less still an interest. Using a literal phrase when one actually means its contradiction is not an idiom. It is however idiocy. In my experience anyone who says i could care less to me does in fact mean they couldnt care less but simply does not understand the definition so there in, not understanding the difference.
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