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Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today
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Date: 
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:29:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
In lugnet.general, Brad Hamilton writes:
I'm happy with the new way.  I do like to read people's comments, but its
fine to have to do an extra click.  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.

No one else does, right? :-)

Anyway I do agree with you. "could care less" is wrong. When I slip, I
explain away by agreeing that I indeed could care less... just not very MUCH
less.

(no real system can reach an absolute zero temperature... is the same true
for absolute zero caring??? Maybe.)

++Lar



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(...) I'm not so sure about this. In an episode of the George Reeves Superman series, the mad doctor of the week had developed a cold ray that projected a beam of cold 2000 degrees below zero. If this is true, then obviously "absolute zero" is no (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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