OT: I could care less about comments on grammar...
...because I do care about comments on grammar. I care about them because I find them annoying when they take over threads and change them into threads about grammar.
And (notice I began my sentence with a conjunction, which is frowned upon in formal writing, but I have decided to adopt a less formal style of prose for this post because this is a message board about college sports) logically speaking, most (perhaps all) uses of "couldn't care less" are incorrect. For someone to comment that they "couldn't care less" means that they do indeed care enough to comment that they "couldn't care less."
Here's an example:
Person 1: "Michael Rosenberg said...."
Person 2: "I couldn't care less about what Michael Rosenberg said."
False! Person 2 obviously cares about what Michael Rosenberg said. They probably think he's 100% wrong on everything, which means that they care about what he said because they think he is wrong and shouldn't have said what he said, hence they truly do care about what he is said.
Complete indifference about Michael Rosenberg's comments would probably result in silence, or if someone did reply that they "couldn't care less", it would only be true if they had absolutely no positive or NEGATIVE (caps for emphasis) feelings towards Michael Rosenberg's comments.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:29 AM ^
I don't need somebody to tell me how to speak good.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:32 AM ^
What exactly brought on this grammatical tirade?
March 24th, 2010 at 11:37 AM ^
Menstruation?
March 24th, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
I was thinking it was more a case of sandy vajajay, but this works too.
More seriously, it's likely related to this sub-thread.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:52 AM ^
...Bears can smell it
March 24th, 2010 at 11:57 AM ^
eat bamboo.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:36 AM ^
and my time is valuable so I will be billing you.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:44 AM ^
Did RCMB send the OP over here to try and lower mgoblog's standards to their impossibly low ones?
Sorry, Brah: it isn't going to work.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:46 AM ^
You say uses of "couldn't care less" are "incorrect" in a post about grammar. This suggests that such uses are grammatically incorrect, whereas your reasoning suggests that the statements are merely false. You really should have made that clearer.
I could care less, so I think I'll do that now.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:51 AM ^
start shitty threads.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:52 AM ^
Right...
So, you know, you don't have to read all the comments. Like, just skip 'em and live life.
March 24th, 2010 at 12:00 PM ^
To say "I could care less" means the opposite of what you intend to mean. But, then again, you do NOT care about communicating clearly. Which poses the question: Why write at all?
March 24th, 2010 at 12:02 PM ^
and not
MGoTermpaper
or
MGoThesis
or
MGoTreatise
or
MGoEssay
although MGoHaiku would be fun
March 24th, 2010 at 12:06 PM ^
We MGoHaiku
It's a verb now, like Google
Haters gonna hate
March 24th, 2010 at 12:23 PM ^
OP does not like
people who correct grammar
I could not care less
Win Win Win Win Win
Achieve victory over
All opponents. Win.
No Mgohaiku
Would make us miserable
Turn board into Scout's
March 24th, 2010 at 12:12 PM ^
It started when a Spartan fan came down from banging his high horse on top of his pedestal to actually take the time to post this response to me,
"Oh this will be fun.
'Reinstate' is one word, not a hyphenated word. But don't worry; it won't be the last time a Spartan has to correct a Wolverine on spelling/grammar usage.
FWIW, Mark Ingram Sr. won't be going anywhere for a while (I think he got 8 years). And Plaxico won't be out until Sept. 2011 if he does not gain an early release. God, I want to kill myself, I'm correcting someone on how long various ex-Spartans will be in jail."
-It's in the Keith Nichol thread
March 24th, 2010 at 12:21 PM ^
I guess I can let this woman slip away
'cause I got my eye on you
I see you lookin' over your shoulder
Let me make my way over
Excuse me miss lady, how you doin'?
Your body lookin' right
You're the type I like and I'm pursuin'
Can I get a little closer?
So I can get to know you and exchange names and things
Before the night is over
All I really want is
For you to back it up
Go on and put your weight on it
'cause it's alright
Do what you wanna
Make me believe you
I wanna see you
Get it shawty
I guess if I can let the night just drift away
So baby what you're gonna do?
'cause I don't wanna lose it
Come on keep it movin'
Excuse me miss lady, how you doin'
Your body lookin' right,
You're the type I like and I'm pursuin'
Can I get a little closer?
So I can get to know you and exchange names and things
Before the night is over
All I really want is
For you to back it up
Go on and put your weight on it
'cause it's alright
Do what you wanna
Make me believe you
I wanna see you
Get it shawty
March 24th, 2010 at 12:24 PM ^
handle that people can easily remember.
This neg-bang should pass, once the thread moves off the front page. You better hope it is a busy day on the board...
Do you not know how to write? I'm not trying to be a dick, but all I ever see you post is random pictures, while usually funny, it would be nice to let the mgocommunity get to know the real poguemahone. I know together we can help you discover the real you.
are the window to my very soul. It's a very personal experience for me, you see. I hope you can appreciate that.
> He doesn't know who poguemahone is
[reaction image of Willy Wonka with his head on his hand]
Apparently you never read short lived OSU blog We Will Always Have Tempe?
I couldn't care less what you think about my grammar on mgoblog/mgoboard. What I could care less about is the grammar of my doctoral thesis in a year from now.
Gramar anoise me to dawg.