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Ross Crawford at rcrawford@csi.com wrote:
> 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.
That's a lovely sweeping generalization you have there.
However, I do share your complaint.
One of my LEGO-related complaints has to do with the fact that people say
"Technique" when they mean "Technic."
"Technique" = (tek-neek)
"Technic" = (tek-nik)
Thanks for your attention.
:^)
~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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