DaRizzle
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That IS irritating. Kinda like when people say, "I could care less." Damnit people! It's not "I could care less." It's "I couldn't care less." Get it right!
damn straight
It seems like so many feel we will still miss the playoffs..why?
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The thing that bothers me is when people don't realize that the whistle kills the clock on a foul.
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No. Mixum posts BS 5 out of 6 times. Half the time he's very obviously wrong or just trying to annoy.
If it's not one of those cases, then there's some truth to what he's saying 1 out of every 3 posts.
I can just laugh him off but I try to guess if I hit that lucky 1 intelligent post in 6.
Of course, I have him on ignore, so I usually only see his posts when someone quotes him. So, I guess
I really DO laugh him off.
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http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxcouldc.html
The idiom "couldn't care less", meaning "doesn't care at all"
(the meaning in full is "cares so little that he couldn't possibly
care less"), originated in Britain around 1940. "Could care less",
which is used with the same meaning, developed in the U.S. around
1960. We get disputes about whether the latter was originally a
mis-hearing of the former; whether it was originally ironic; or
whether it arose from uses where the negative element was separated
from "could" ("None of these writers could care less..."). Henry
Churchyard believes that this sentence by Jane Austen may be
pertinent: "You know nothing and you care less, as people say."
(Mansfield Park (1815), Chapter 29) Meaning-saving elaborations
have also been suggested: "As if I could care less!"; "I could care
less, but I'd have to try"; "If I cared even one iota -- which I
don't --, then I could care less."
Recently encountered has been "could give a damn", used in the
sense "couldn't give a damn".
An earlier transition in which "not" was dropped was the one that
gave us "but" in the sense of "only". "I will not say but one
word", where "but" meant "(anything) except", became "I will say but
one word."
Other idioms that say the opposite of what they mean include:
"head over heels" (which could mean turning cartwheels, i.e. "head
over heels over head over heels", but is also used to mean "upside-
down", i.e. "heels over head"); "Don't sneeze more than you can
help" (meaning "more than you cannot help"; "help" here means
"prevent"); "It's hard to open, much less acknowledge, the letters"
(where "less" means "harder", i.e. "more"); "I shouldn't wonder if
it didn't rain"; "I miss not seeing you"; and "I turned my life
around 360 degrees" -- not to mention undisputedly ironic phrases
such as "fat chance", "Thanks a *lot*", and "I should worry".
The idiom "couldn't care less", meaning "doesn't care at all"
(the meaning in full is "cares so little that he couldn't possibly
care less"), originated in Britain around 1940. "Could care less",
which is used with the same meaning, developed in the U.S. around
1960. We get disputes about whether the latter was originally a
mis-hearing of the former; whether it was originally ironic; or
whether it arose from uses where the negative element was separated
from "could" ("None of these writers could care less..."). Henry
Churchyard believes that this sentence by Jane Austen may be
pertinent: "You know nothing and you care less, as people say."
(Mansfield Park (1815), Chapter 29) Meaning-saving elaborations
have also been suggested: "As if I could care less!"; "I could care
less, but I'd have to try"; "If I cared even one iota -- which I
don't --, then I could care less."
Recently encountered has been "could give a damn", used in the
sense "couldn't give a damn".
An earlier transition in which "not" was dropped was the one that
gave us "but" in the sense of "only". "I will not say but one
word", where "but" meant "(anything) except", became "I will say but
one word."
Other idioms that say the opposite of what they mean include:
"head over heels" (which could mean turning cartwheels, i.e. "head
over heels over head over heels", but is also used to mean "upside-
down", i.e. "heels over head"); "Don't sneeze more than you can
help" (meaning "more than you cannot help"; "help" here means
"prevent"); "It's hard to open, much less acknowledge, the letters"
(where "less" means "harder", i.e. "more"); "I shouldn't wonder if
it didn't rain"; "I miss not seeing you"; and "I turned my life
around 360 degrees" -- not to mention undisputedly ironic phrases
such as "fat chance", "Thanks a *lot*", and "I should worry".
mgb
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That IS irritating. Kinda like when people say, "I could care less." Damnit people! It's not "I could care less." It's "I couldn't care less." Get it right!
Maybe they could care less!
Irregardless.
Storyteller2
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Do you really want to go there? This post alone had a handful of errors in punctuation.
I promise to use 'lose' appropriately if you promise to use commas, periods and apostrophes.
Reep
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That IS irritating. Kinda like when people say, "I could care less." Damnit people! It's not "I could care less." It's "I couldn't care less." Get it right!
irregardless [
] of the mistakes in this thread . . . what was the point of this thread again?
GoBlazersGo
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Do you really want to go there? This post alone had a handful of errors in punctuation.
I promise to use 'lose' appropriately if you promise to use commas, periods and apostrophes.
Whoa, dude... glad to see you FINALLY made it over here to join us, ST--WELCOME!
maxiep
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Do you really want to go there? This post alone had a handful of errors in punctuation.
I promise to use 'lose' appropriately if you promise to use commas, periods and apostrophes.
Why Storyteller2? Is there another Storyteller?
mgb
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irregardless [
Hey I beat you by a hr!
Storyteller2
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LOL! I signed up for Sports2 about two years ago using the screen name Storyteller. Never got in the habit of posting here. Have no idea what password I used. Plus, I've changed my email since then so I can't have the system email it to me automatically. I tried getting it sent to me by sending a message to an admin, but got no response. So, in the end, I just registered a new name....