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This is literally just dialect it has nothing to do with critical thinking.
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
This is literally just dialect it has nothing to do with critical thinking.
- lhartmann 4y ago"I could not care less" means: "My interest is already at zero". The other form is wrong, its proponents sometimes cite irony, but that's very weak.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoIt's an idiom so the meaning is inherently somewhat divorced from the literal meaning of the words. In this case nearly opposite of it but that's not super unusual itself. It also has an equivalent where the component words are flipped, but the idiom's meaning is the same. Also not extremely rare. If someone says this with the "wrong" meaning, and a listener understands what they meant without thinking about it or considering alternatives. And you crash in saying "you're wrong!"... who is wrong there?
- mixedCase 4y agoOn/By I can understand being considered dialect, however English is not my first language so my flexibility could be undue. But saying "I could care less" can only indicate you've never given any thought to what the phrase actually means and how it conveys almost the opposite meaning to what you're trying to say.
- hgsgm 4y agoIt's internalized sarcasm into an idiom. My mom thinks felines and canines are literally falling form the sky. How dumb is she!