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[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Bernie said “could care less” in his response to the sotu last night. Made me cringe.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Literally just talking about that! I agree that the original intent (and, you know, meanings of words) should make it "couldn't" but I think the two have linguistically drifted together within the phrase.

The rules-boy in me rallies against it, but the descriptivist in me celebrates and I couldn't care less how he said it.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wittgenstein said that language isn't actually semantic in its natural state. Instead, language serves as a sort of game to accomplish social ends.

"I could care less" serves the social end of telling everyone you have no critical thinking skills and shouldn't be taken seriously.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Lol, that second thought boomed me pretty good, thanks

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Lol.

On a slightly more serious note, it makes dry humor a bit harder to land since you can't rely on subtlety as much. Like "I could care less about my SO" in context where it's the punchline of a misdirection joke.

Such is life though.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Delete it now