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**LesLattis** · 08-21-2012, 04:04 AM

"I could care less" is easily the worst.

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I don't agree. I could care less and I couldn't care less are both colloquialisms or perhaps more accurately figurative speech, that have different meanings. The former is not the same as the latter, and many people (not just Americans) misuse it.

Neither are idioms though, as they mean literally what they say.

In my defence, it's too much effort to type colloquialism on the iPad so I just went with idiom.

08-21-2012, 04:04 AM	#51
LesLattis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 616 Senior Member	"I could care less" is easily the worst. --- Post Update --- I don't agree. I could care less and I couldn't care less are both colloquialisms or perhaps more accurately figurative speech, that have different meanings. The former is not the same as the latter, and many people (not just Americans) misuse it. Neither are idioms though, as they mean literally what they say. In my defence, it's too much effort to type colloquialism on the iPad so I just went with idiom.
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