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Old 05-14-2013, 08:57 PM   #18
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
I tend not to use double negatives myself, but they are an acceptable grammatical construct. Double negatives are used for emphasis. You should not use boolean logic when parsing English.

But "I could care less" is just wrong.
No, it isn't. It's a proper idiom and has been used in print for 50 years. See also "I could give a rat's *ss". Language doesn't usually have much to do with logic.
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