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"Could care less" is widely understood to mean exactly what we all know it means.

• EvanAnderson 10y ago
  It would be nice if it wasn't.
  • ComputerGuru 10y ago
    > It would be nice if it wasn't. Since you're being pedantic, you might want to go back and change that to "weren't" instead of "wasn't," as it is a hypothetical supposition. (And yet, I agree with you.) (please no one comment on the comma inside the quotes. I think we're at this awkward point in grammar history where we're seeing a transition from "all punctuation must be inside the quotes" to "sometimes it really really doesn't make sense for the punctuation to be inside the quote, especially if you're not quoting a person saying a full phrase.")
    • EvanAnderson 10y ago
      Touche. (The "punctuation inside / outside quotes" is something I think about in my writing nearly daily. It's nice to know somebody else thinks about it, too.)
    • ScottBurson 10y ago
      I've read that that transition has already occurred in British English. In any case, I don't hesitate to put the comma outside the quotes if that makes sense to me, though it's not considered correct in American usage (and I'm in the US). This is one point on which I agree with the Brits; now if we could just get them to change -ise back to -ize :-)