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Old 09-01-2009, 03:47 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Leo5445 View Post
True, in my opinion British English is the 'correct' English, but sadly the Americans have taken it and made some changes.

The one thing that really infuriates me is the saying "I could care less." IT makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. What the speaker is saying in that instance is that he could actually care less about the topic at hand, which implies that he does care about it. The proper way to say this is "I couldn't care less", which is actually grammatically correct.

I'm sorry if I come across as being a know-it-all, but this is one of very few subjects that I take interest in (football is obviously one of those subjects )
I don't think there is a 'correct,' English but there is different dialects. To say one is correct over the other in a way would be ignorant. But I get what you are saying at.
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