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Old 04-18-2015 | 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by John Carr
Come on brotha', people pay you for your expertise and being able to be coached to phrase things PROPERLY. Attention to detail is IMPORTANT;

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.

Urban Dictionary: I could care less
Checking yes to this box is not the reason for getting denied an interview invite, it's as simple as that. This coming from United HR and from dozens of past clients who've listed their speeding tickets there.

John Carr. In your quote it says "could care less" means "you care a little". My response then was absolutely proper terminology. They could care less about a ticket 15 years. If the interviewers "couldn't care less" about speeding tickets at all, any questions about speeding tickets would be completely omitted from the entire application itself.

On that note, I do find the humor in some of your posts quite funny.

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