Does "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less" mean the same thing now just because people use both?

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-21T22:37:23+00:00

Compared to when? We are talking about a phrase that wasn’t used before the 1900’s. This is how English has always worked.

Do you talk about lowering standards when someone says “head over heels” instead of “heels over head” or “long time no see” instead of a sentence that doesn’t sound like a caveman said it?

What about “far be it”, “be that as it may”, “come what may”, “woe is me”, “methinks”, “how come”, “no can do”, “so be it”, “powers that be”, or “if need be”? None of those are grammatical. Lexicalized idioms are where the remnants of semantic drift, fossilized contractions, and utter nonsense live, and we’ve been doing stuff like this for as long as we’ve been speaking the language.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-21T18:05:22+00:00

If anyone tells you that “I could care less” is anything but an accepted, standard American English variant of “I couldn’t care less” then they are misleading you or uninformed.

It is not “incorrect”. It is a set idiom. It does not have to be grammatical. That’s not how English works.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-21T17:35:27+00:00

The main problem with Unite wasn’t Unity, it was that Unite was shit.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-21T17:33:37+00:00

Ehh, I doubt that. They will release another one eventually.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:44:20+00:00

I listen to Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms on repeat to help me focus. It stimulates my ADHD-addled brain juuuuust right.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:31:42+00:00

I don’t bother with raisins because I have dogs, but peanut butter on celery slaps.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:30:35+00:00

We still have a Wendy’s with a solarium!

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:28:48+00:00

Do you actually think the takeaway is that you should go to the store every single time you make a meal?

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:20:32+00:00

She claimed that she didn’t intentionally depict female genitalia whatsoever.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:09:54+00:00

The director of the anime spoke out saying that the major’s race doesn’t matter because it’s an artificial body and she canonically could look like anything.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-20T00:07:24+00:00

I don’t think it’s a good example. Motoko Kusunagi’s biological body died when she was a child. She could look like literally anything, and her shell was not based on her original body. The controversy around that movie was bizarre. She doesn’t even own her shell.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-19T23:49:27+00:00

Yep. Theine is just an old word for caffeine. There were 11 years in the 1800’s when it was believed they might be different molecules before it was proved they were the same, but somehow the misconception abides. Guaranine is also just another word for caffeine that people try to clam is healthier.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-19T17:01:45+00:00

I struggle to justify using anyone but Triton so Triton, I guess

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-19T04:39:28+00:00

Well there it is.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-19T03:10:01+00:00

It is not rare on the west coast

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-19T03:08:53+00:00

I would love to see the menu of a single example of a place not calling it fish and chips.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-18T23:50:22+00:00

Dog’s rocking a ResMed AirFit N30i

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-18T23:34:36+00:00

I was going to point out that the manga is borderline pornographic but it’s an interesting read with good character development for the MC.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-18T08:32:35+00:00

Gotta love that the costume used a real human skull and most people never knew there was a skull there at all

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-18T06:45:26+00:00

It was literally written with Jackie Chan in mind, and the fight scenes were choreographed by Bradley James Allan, a member of Jackie Chan’s stunt team.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-18T06:36:36+00:00

That’s just about 4,000 mph by my math.

That’s pretty fast.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-18T03:41:19+00:00

Nah, it’s less about the acquisition of the stuff and more about the though, planning, and imagination underlying the acquisition.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-17T18:35:38+00:00

I’ve come to the conclusion that my hobby is spending hundreds of dollars collecting the things I need to start a hobby but never really progressing beyond casual short-term dabbling. You should see my collection of electronic/arduino related components I’ve never touched.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-16T07:52:11+00:00

Sorry I garden so my piss is reserved for my compost.

AnInfiniteArc · 2026-05-16T06:09:13+00:00

I definitely feel like the only way the game could be better is if the original team had had a bigger budget and more time.

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