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To: Biggie Smalls who wrote (9)	12/1/1997 5:04:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) of 4710

"I could care less" - NO! "I could not care less" - YES! Thank you for the reference to the site "Common Errors in English." In fact, I liked it so much that I am going to quote its diatribe against the abhorrent "I could care less": "Cliches are especially prone to scrambling because they become meaningless through overuse. In this case an expression which originally meant "it would be impossible for me to care less than I do because I do not care at all" is rendered senseless by being transformed into the now-common "I could care less." Think about it: if you could care less, that means you care some. People who misuse this phrase are being careless." jbe

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