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Maggie Cambron wrote:
>
> In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Brad Hamilton writes:
> > > I could care less about people who own the set, want the set, or want to sell
> > > it.
> >
> > Aaarrrgh!! I don't know who decided "couldn't" should be shortened to "could"
> > but it seems to have caught on.
> >
> > I suppose it's possible that you could care less - but I bet you meant you
> > couldn't care less. Not that I have anything against yan^H^H^H americans, but
> > you seem to quite regularly do awful things like this to the language.
>
> Hey, I resemble that nasturtium! I'll have you know that I too cringe when I
> hear that phrase (no offense, Brad!). It also pains me that I have seen two
> people on Lugnet who certainly should have known better write "between you and
> I". And while I'm at it "drug" is not a past tense of "drag"! Since
> "short-lived" means "having a short life", the correct pronunciation should be
> obvious.
>
> If I think of other examples I'll be more than happy share them-- can you tell
> that I could care less about this topic? A LOT less?
>
> Maggie C. (tickled to have worked the word "nasturtium" into yet another post)
Check out what The American Heritage® Book of English Usage, A Practical
and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English has to say about this
subject:
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/078.html
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
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