On 2011-12-16, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Eelco wrote: >> the actual english usage of the phrase, which omits >> the negation completely :). (I could care less) > > No, that's the American usage.
That's the _ignorant_ American usage. Americans with a clue use the "couldn't" version. I won't comment on the relative sizes of the two groups. > The English usage is "I couldn't care less", which has the advantage > of actually making sense. Indeed. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! HUGH BEAUMONT died at in 1982!! gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list