FBO etiquette

[imacdog]

"couldn't care less" Well if that is the case you must care a lot.

I think you have that one backward. Saying you couldn't care less means you care so little about something that you couldn't go any lower.

Oh, and guys that run their APU for two hours parked in front of the door. :smash:

 

[landlover]

"couldn't care less" Well if that is the case you must care a lot.

this phrase indicates that the speaker is at the lowest point of caring. As if the speaker did care less it would be a negative amount of caring.

"I couldn't care less even if I tried"

 

[G100driver]

Wrong to both of you. Saying that you could not care less (couldn't care less) is incorrect english. The two negitive adverbs cancel each other out. Think about it. Just because it makes sence in your mind does not mean that it is correct english.

The correct statment is "I could care less" Meaning I do not care at all.

 

[G100driver]

PS I run the APU because it is more comfortable to sit in airplane than listen to moron's talk on their cell phone's and snore in the pilots lounge!

 

[Rick James]

PS I run the APU because it is more comfortable to sit in airplane than listen to moron's talk on there cell phone's and snore in the pilots lounge!

That's funny, I just about agree.

 

[GVFlyer]

this phrase indicates that the speaker is at the lowest point of caring. As if the speaker did care less it would be a negative amount of caring.

"I couldn't care less even if I tried"

To take your post a bit further...

The expression I could not care less originally meant 'it would be impossible for me to care less than I do because I do not care at all'. It was originally a British saying and came to the US in the 1950s. It is senseless to transform it into the now-common I could care less. If you could care less, that means you care at least a little. The original is quite sarcastic and the other form is clearly nonsense. The inverted form I could care less was coined in the US and is found only here, recorded in print by 1966. The question is, something caused the negative to vanish even while the original form of the expression was still very much in vogue and available for comparison - so what was it? There are other American English expressions that have a similar sarcastic inversion of an apparent sense, such as Tell me about it!, which usually means 'Don't tell me about it, because I know all about it already'. The Yiddish I should be so lucky!, in which the real sense is often 'I have no hope of being so lucky', has a similar stress pattern with the same sarcastic inversion of meaning as does I could care less.






GV

 

[G100driver]

So what you are saying is two negative adverbs make a positive ....

I guess then I do not know nothing .... no wait I know nothing .... ahhhh $hit, now I am confused. I guess I should just keep to standard english rules.

 

[ag2pilot]

G100driver Wrong to both of you. Saying that you could not care less (couldn't care less) is incorrect english. The two negitive adverbs cancel each other out. Think about it. Just because it makes sence in your mind does not mean that it is correct english.

The correct statment is "I could care less" Meaning I do not care at all.





I'm not trying to pick a fight, just bored, but "couldn't care less" isn't a double negative.

Negitive is actually spelled negative.

Sence should be sense.

You need a period between less" and Meaning.

Also, at the end of the post that you edited the reason was " If I'm going to be the grammer police I better be correct''


Grammer should be grammar.

There should be a comma after police and a period at the end.


I think I just set myself up for to be scrutinized forever, but, like I said I am bored.

 

[G100driver]

LOL!! no offence taken ... I flunked spelling.

But couldn't (could not) care less is a double negative.

Not and less are both adverbs to the verb .... care

 

[landlover]

the two negatives in the phrase "couldn't care less" apply to different verbs, thus not cancelling each other out. the first, couldn't applies to the act of being able to care. the second "less" applies to the act of caring.