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  1. drand
    Headmaster

    How much do you care?

    Nice to hear you could care less, but as I don't give a monkey's I couldn't.

    1. Semtex451
      Pint

      Re: How much do you care?

      Often wondered about that, we need a second pedant opinion though..

      1. Semtex451
        Unhappy

        Re: How much do you care?

        Down votes for being open minded, I should have known.

        1. Semtex451
          WTF?

          Re: How much do you care?

          Ok I didn't want to do this, but to all you fellow pedants:

          How many words and/or phrases in the English language can you count that now mean the opposite of what they originally meant?

          1. Semtex451

            Re: How much do you care?

            Typical Trolls don't think too hard, they just let the knee jerk reaction take over, I'm waiting for down voters to return and redeem themselves. Otherwise it's just Trolls down voting me and not genuine pedants.

          2. Cliff

            Re: How much do you care?

            >>>How many words and/or phrases in the English language can you count that now mean the opposite of what they originally meant?<<<

            So I should say the opposite of what I mean? Downvote means upvote? 'No means yes, your honour'.

            We should embrace 'irrigardless'? Give up on education?

    2. nematoad
      FAIL

      Re: How much do you care?

      Note to El Reg.

      Write out 100 times.

      "I couldn't care less."

      Otherwise it just makes you out to be a drooling Apple fanboi.

      Please don't join out trans Atlantic cousins and turn English on its head.

      See also "Cave" instead of "Cave in".

      1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

        Re: Re: How much do you care?

        It's just a quote, mate. Have a listen.

        C.

        1. handle

          Re: How much do you care?

          If it's just a quote, it needs a subtitle.

    3. Alan Edwards

      Re: How much do you care?

      I'm with you, it should be 'couldn't care less'.

      It's American vs. English English again. This came up on A Way With Words a while back, the 'could care less' is more common in the US, 'couldn't care less' more in the UK. It was probably an American being quoted in the title.

      Tempting to end with 'like I could care less', but I do care, so I won't...

  2. Stuart 16

    OFGS: Learn English, you are supposed to be a professional, or were you sick that day?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

    "COULD CARE LESS"

    I'm sorry, but this makes you an idiot!

  3. Richard 81

    "I COULD CARE LESS"

    That's it, you just made the list.

  4. Jim 48
    Trollface

    Considering that they've highlighted that particular phrase, I wouldn't be at all surprised if all the pedants above have been righteously trolled.

    1. Tiny Iota
      Mushroom

      they could care less

    2. Cliff

      Quite

      I suspect many commentards have been trolled

      1. Dan 55 Silver badge
        Headmaster

        Re: Quite

        Trolled into replying or trolled into listening to it?

        In my case it was the second. The offending English is at 28:57.

        1. Cliff

          Re: Quite

          Quite clearly highlighted by reg editors as being incendiary - there were other, clearly more relevant quotes they deselected ;)

  5. William Donelson

    You are an Apple employee? Apply guy? Not for long.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    If you could care less how much do you actually care?

    I couldn't care less about the strange American distortion of the English language. I think it has something to do with their education system or maybe lack thereof.

    1. Cliff

      I could care less what you're opinion is your an idiot so their.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    BREAKING NEWS: Aaron Delp suspended from podcast

    Effective immediately, Aaron Delp has been suspended for 2 podcast episodes due to abuse of the English language.

    https://twitter.com/SPEAKINGinTECH/status/512294978606075904

    1. This post has been deleted by its author

  8. handle

    Musunderestimation

    It is impossible to underestimate just how upset some of us get about these things.

    Oh hang on...

  9. JeffyPoooh
    Pint

    "Kids are terrified of Microsoft's Minecraft buyout"

    Yes. True.

    Two kidiots. Both Minecraft enthusiasts. Both bothered by possibility of change within the Minecraft universe. Microsoft had better tread very carefully else they'll have bought $2.5B of NEGATIVE "goodwill and other intangibles."

  10. Ken Darling

    Think about what your saying

    "I could care less" - there is still room for you to care less about something. In other words, you do care about it.

    1. BlartVersenwaldIII

      Re: Think about what your saying

      But it's not their saying - it's been an idiom for decades and I don't think I've ever seen it attributed to any particular commentard.

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