“I could care less”

When American types express a low level of attention for a given situation, they tend to say ‘I could care less’…

Now, this strikes me as wrong. COULDN’T care less is right…no?

EDIT: right above me, the same 😀

Some people on here need to lay off the caffeine and and get more sleep. 😆

COULDN’T care less is right…no?

Couldn’t care less is right, isn’t it?

Those who live by the sword. 😉

I have noticed an increasing number of ladies employing the term “Bless you” when what they actually mean is “thank you”…

HAVE YOU BEEN F***ING ORDAINED???? NO??!!! Right, under the patio for you.

Friend of my wife says ‘Bless you’ all the time.

As in;

Me. “here’s some cake”
Her. “Oh Bless you”
Me “er…ok”

She also calls me Boy, as a term of endearment;

Her. “Hello Boy”
Me “**** off”*

*I say this in my head.

The word “drawing” pronounced “drawring” = knitting needle in eye socket.

I think you mind find that Intrusive R to be an established part of English english

Now, this strikes me as wrong. COULDN’T care less is right…no?

Unnecessary addition of “…no?” at the end of a statement (often instead of “isn’t it?”) to signify a question. **** hate that stupid americanism or wherever it originated from 👿

My wife’s American and her family use “could care less” and while it doesn’t annoy me much, certainly not in the way “going forward” does, it’s just completely and utterly wrong. If you could care less then you care a certain amount, which is not what you’re trying to say. How did an entire nation of many hundreds of millions end up using this?

I could care less, but I can’t be arsed

Almost all of the above cause me some discomfort, but “right now” is very irritating: “I’m so happy right now.” And what about right now? And now? And now?

“Cheap at half the price” is another bastardisation of a phrase as well.

“Isn’t it fun” or ” Oh I think that’s really fun” when someone is referring to an object. No you ****wit its a manky old eggcup and not fun in any way.
Too much daytime tv antique shows I guess…

In the same vein the word sweet when used about a person or object, especially when the s becomes a Z….”It’s so zzzweeeet”….arghh

I get annoyed with people that use “I” every time they describe something that they did with someone else, just so they don’t sound common. Even the times when they should be using “me”.

e.g. “Jedi showed my freind and I how to ride a bike.”

Worse still “Jedi moved my freind and I’s brake levers.”

Use of the word text when it’s in the past tense.

“I text him last night”

It’s texted, you moron.

This one’s probably just me, but the BBC really annoy me by referring to “President Obama”. He’s US President. I don’t have, and don’t want a president.

freind

Irony 😉

I before e except after c, unless you’re weird.

🙁

Wasn’t calling you weird, by the way, that was a pun. A bad one…

Aah, I see what you mean. Very good.

You lot are funny getting het* up about this stuff

Mind you I do find “arks” pretty annoying but thankfully I only hear it when the TV strays to BBC3, whose programs appear to be primarily shaky homemade footage filmed by londoners.

People that say “Boils my pi$$” is worse

anyone trying swear filter avoidance on none swearies

*wonders if that’ll trigger owt

I before e except after c, unless you’re weird.

deign
height
inveigh
inveigle
reign
rein
sleigh
sleight
vein
weigh
weight

😉

(OK, I goodle’d all the exceptions to this rule)

i before e except after Old Macdonald had a farm.

(OK, I goodle’d all the exceptions to this rule)

exceptions out number the ones that follow the rule, that’s why it’s not taught anymore

according to QI

Are we doing nouns as verbs yet ?

You don’t text somebody, you send them a text message. If you accept text as a verb, then you can’t really moan about the past tense…

I’ll throw in “networking”, the initial mutation that lead to that plague.

I don’t hear it often thankfully, but when someone asks me to ‘action’ something, my eye starts twitching.

jon1973 – Member
Some people on here need to lay off the caffeine and and get more sleep.

So basickly at the end of the day you’re saying that peeps shouldn’t wake up and smell the coffee?

One of supervisors (as in not quite my actual boss) frequently employs the phrase “it is what it is”.

I have the joy of hearing “well, we are where we are” a lot at work. Pointless phrase.