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You know what grinds my gears? Needless pedantry and linguistic prescriptivism. > This ommission of the negative really grinds my gears, and I couldn't care le
by messe 3y ago
You know what grinds my gears? Needless pedantry and linguistic prescriptivism.
> This ommission of the negative really grinds my gears, and I couldn't care less about American Idiom when it literally changes the meaning of the words.
Tough luck? Language is like that, idioms especially. Just get used to the fact that not everybody speaks the same dialect of English as you do, and none of them are objectively the correct one in any sense.
You clearly knew what they meant, so there's no communication barrier here. You're being pedantic for the sake of it.
- richrichardsson 3y agoPerhaps I understood, because I have previous knowledge of the idiom, especially when it comes to the "couldn't care less" variation. However someone encountering it for the first time can only go with what is written, which clearly states that the subject "could care less" or "give a flying fuck", when the intent is entirely opposite.