Terry sez: ...
>> The excuse I'm sticking to is that I have an aversion against writing >> sentences that seem to possess double negatives. It's not that I'm no >> writer! > > "Could not care less" is not a double negative. It means you don't > really give a hoot. "Could care less" means that you are concerned to > some degree. It's Friday afternoon and I feel an overwhelming urge to machinate on trivial items of pointless etiquette of the grammatical kind. I freely admit that use of grammar was not one of my better learned skills in school particularly since spell checkers, thesaurus-helpers, and grammatical correctors were years away from being invented. The way you describe my prior use of the phrase "...could care less" makes me now feel that, despite my ignorance, I chose wisely. Even though, as you say, my use of this phrase may not have accurately described what I was originally aiming for... I have decided to change the original intent of my use of that phrase to now reflect: "Most might be concerned but only to a lesser degree...if they consume their product from the surface of white glossy paper or from an LED screen." Hopefully, this carefully crafted weasel worded response settles our controversial dispute! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
