It doesn’t “suggest” you might care less. It explicitly rules out the possibility that you couldn’t care less, which is what you mean. If words have any meaning, it’s wrong.https://twitter.com/merriamwebster/status/1006225523138355201 …
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There may be no coming back from that one, but we can limit the language from devolving into further stupidity.
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It’s not illogical at all. It’s weird we haven’t picked one and stuck with it, maybe. That doesn’t mean we should go around using phrases that mean the opposite of their plain meaning.
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Here’s a reading of the matter written by an American linguist: http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/03/18/why_i_could_care_less_is_not_as_irrational_or_ungrammatical_as_you_might.html …
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The fact that we have both it’s and its should disqualify English as a serious language.
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That’s nothing—I think nonplussed is an antonym of itself in english/american usages.
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Saying “I could care less” is the ultimate expression of apathy. It means that you don’t even care enough to bother to care less about that thing.
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It's only illogical to people who erroneously assume the 'in-' of inflammable is a negative prefix.
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