The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFor the record: "TOE the line"; "Eat Your Cake And Have It Too"; "Hear, Hear!"
The Online Grammar/Spelling Commissar has spoken!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)If so, he would've been the first real grammar nazi.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)Google the term both ways and report back on hits.
sl8
(13,800 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)No, you couldn't care less! If you could care less that means you still care a little bit.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,203 posts)Bucky
(54,027 posts)It was one of those books about common misconceptions.
The argument went that people saying "I could care less" were being sarcastic, just like people who say "I'm dying over here" when they're laughing or "I'm so amused" when they're not. As in "Oh, I could care less..."
I don't buy it. People who don't care are going to be direct, not clever. Also, people who "could care less" are too stupid to do sarcasm right.
Ohiya
(2,235 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)It's "give free rein to (something)", not "give free reign to (something)".
ashling
(25,771 posts)I give you free reign
a kennedy
(29,675 posts)sl8
(13,800 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)What does "The proof is in the pudding" even MEAN??
Bucky
(54,027 posts)Something terrible happened.
sl8
(13,800 posts)Now I've got something else to be annoyed with, thankyouverymuch.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Bucky
(54,027 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)Proof that the document was no longer legible.
Ha!!
You just made my day... for all intensive purposes
ashling
(25,771 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)Response to hatrack (Original post)
Name removed Message auto-removed
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Unless you're talking about this guy.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Long Road to go
OR
Long Row to hoe
or does it depend on where you grew up