While this is true, and I mostly agree with you, I would be much more likely to try hard drugs if I knew they were pure. Legalizing them would provide that assurance. I think this argument holds best with things like pot or shrooms which are hard (or pointless) to cut with less desirables.
he and I ended up talking about Slashdot via cell phone -- and he caught me while I was at a local lumberyard, thinking about plywood, not Slashdot or Futurama. I wish I'd recorded the conversation. It was totally surreal.
I wouldn't have posted this if I thought people were going to argue it so much. No it isn't supposed to have contradiction in its meaning. And most people that I've spoken with just assume you're stupid if you say 'could care less'. This is probably because most of the people I know who do use this phrase in that manner are well.. much less educated. Lets go ask a professor about it.
Hey, Paul Brians, what do you think about it?
Clichés 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. The original already drips sarcasm, so it's pointless to argue that the newer version is "ironic." People who misuse this phrase are just being careless.
Education (Institutions, degrees, dates):
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 1968
M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1966
B.A., Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 1964
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California 1960-62
Experience (Positions and Dates):
Assistant Professor of English, 1968-1977
Associate Professor of English, 1977-1988
Professor of English, 1988-
Publications:
Modern South Asian Literature in English. Greenwood Press, 2003.
Common Errors in English Usage. William, James, 2003.
Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (ed.). Third Edition, Harcourt Brace Custom Publishing, 1999.
Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (ed.). Second edition, American Heritage Custom Publishing, 1996. Contributed translations of the following selections: Anna Comnena: The Alexiad, Emile Zola: Germinal, Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, Ren/(c) Descartes: The Discourse on Method, Montaigne: Essay on Cannibals, Francois Rabelais: Letter from Gargantua to his son Pantagruel; adapted translations of the following: Angelo Poliziano: Quis Dabit Capiti Meo Aquam (Lament on the Death of Lorenzo di Medici), Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers, from Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.
Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2. (ed.) HarperCollins Custom Publishing, 1994.
Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984. Kent State University Press, 1987. [Refereed]
Bawdy Tales from the Courts of Medieval France (trans. & ed.), Harper & Row, 1975. [Refereed]
Anyway, this wasn't meant as an attack, but more of a pointer. I occasionally mention this to people because if I sound stupid, I want to be told. I just assume other people are the same way. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
When you go, can I get a ride? Sounds like the phone I want :/
he said used.
Personally, I use the fresh stuff... To each their own I suppose.
Indeed.
3 second memory or not, I'm sure they can tell that they're floating in a high concentration of their own waste.
Honestly, how many owners change the water often enough? It would probably need to be done twice a day.
and not know what an relay is, and try to sell you a warranty on a pack of AAs?
..before they are old enough to drive that SUV.
Perfect.
Too bad you chose the wrong god. Kabundungulu won't be pleased.
While this is true, and I mostly agree with you, I would be much more likely to try hard drugs if I knew they were pure. Legalizing them would provide that assurance. I think this argument holds best with things like pot or shrooms which are hard (or pointless) to cut with less desirables.
Yeah it'll help. But you should just get a FF extension like customize google which does it for you every time. Thats assuming you run FF.
As a bonus it also does lots of other neat stuff.
It was a joke. Apparently the mods didn't get it. Ah well, insightful is better for karma anyway.
Yes it does. It's much easier to take their shit after stabbing them.
woosh.
His point was the phrase "up to x or more" is meaningless. It provides no information.
Indeed, my electric toothbrush has used this technology for years.
Get with the times, Apple and others.
Yeah, too bad nobody else thought of that joke
I believe your car analogy was a bit forced, wouldn't you agree?
Despite what many believe, car analogies don't always make things clearer.
There are states where contraceptives require a prescription??!
The mind boggles.
Hard to break off? Put any weight on it and it would just deform. Its a single atom man. A tomato would destroy it.
Screw zip discs, these are all that matter.
Image
Me too. It's called falling.
they realize Hitler is dead, right?
Thats like locking the door of your convertible when you leave it parked with the top down.
Hey, Paul Brians, what do you think about it?
An exerpt from his book/website common errors in english.
I wonder if he's qualified to say that..
Education (Institutions, degrees, dates):
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 1968
M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1966
B.A., Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 1964
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California 1960-62
Experience (Positions and Dates): Assistant Professor of English, 1968-1977
Associate Professor of English, 1977-1988
Professor of English, 1988-
Publications:
Modern South Asian Literature in English. Greenwood Press, 2003.
Common Errors in English Usage. William, James, 2003.
Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (ed.). Third Edition, Harcourt Brace Custom Publishing, 1999.
Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (ed.). Second edition, American Heritage Custom Publishing, 1996. Contributed translations of the following selections: Anna Comnena: The Alexiad, Emile Zola: Germinal, Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, Ren/(c) Descartes: The Discourse on Method, Montaigne: Essay on Cannibals, Francois Rabelais: Letter from Gargantua to his son Pantagruel; adapted translations of the following: Angelo Poliziano: Quis Dabit Capiti Meo Aquam (Lament on the Death of Lorenzo di Medici), Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers, from Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.
Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2. (ed.) HarperCollins Custom Publishing, 1994.
Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984. Kent State University Press, 1987. [Refereed]
Bawdy Tales from the Courts of Medieval France (trans. & ed.), Harper & Row, 1975. [Refereed]
Anyway, this wasn't meant as an attack, but more of a pointer. I occasionally mention this to people because if I sound stupid, I want to be told. I just assume other people are the same way. Perhaps I'm wrong.
No, and if you checked my post history it would be obvious I am not a grammer troll. That one just happens to annoy me.
You're the first I've heard say that there's an implied ending to the saying. Anyway, I'm not the only one who believes the negation is required.
Stop taking it so personally.
If one really could care less, then one must really care. I believe you meant they couldn't care less, meaning they do not care at all.