Subject:
|
Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:34:35 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1279 times
|
| |
|
|
Jasper Janssen wrote in message <3887351c.71898961@lugnet.com>...
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:28:45 GMT, "John DiRienzo"
> <ig88888888@stlnet.com> wrote:
>
> > Teachers who could care less!
>
> ObPetPeeve: No we ****** well don't.
>
> The expression is "couldn't care less", ya damn buffoon.
>
> For whatever reason, this particular one _really_ grates. I suppoose
> because you're saying exactly the opposite of what you're trying to
> convey. There's plenty of foreigners reading along here, and even
> participating, so don't do that. It confuses everyone who is not very
> intimately familiar with United States idiom.
>
> Jasper
I am glad you are familiar enough with it to point it out. You are
right. It happens, that in my parts, in speaking, we usually leave out the
"not". Similar to those horrible double negatives we use in daily converse.
I should be more careful.
--
Have fun!
John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
209 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
