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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1391108, member: 31533&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="Droid Sans">&quot;I could care less&quot; is an idiomatic statement prevalent in American English that simply means that you don&#039;t care a whit. It may be a statement made to infer that that is true, when you actually do care, but don&#039;t want the listener to know it, or it may be a true statement, in that you truly are not interested (to care) in what the other person is saying or doing. Either way, it&#039;s technically incorrect if you are looking to dissect the statement and confirm it&#039;s veracity of language with the words and structure that is used. But it is, and has been, prevalent since the 1960&#039;s, possibly due to carelessness in teaching people the proper use of could/couldn&#039;t when paired with &quot;care less&quot; or it may be because putting it in it&#039;s proper structure (using couldn&#039;t instead of could) gives the feeling of a double negative, which would imply to some that it would then make the statement positive, meaning that the person did in fact care.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Droid Sans"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Droid Sans"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Droid Sans"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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