FLAMMABLE versus INFLAMMABLE
Stupid english....
>_<
For as crappy as English is it is completely made up for with the following 2 expressions. OK and WTF.
Of course it's wrong, it's obviously wrong, but the bottom-line is it's slang. In Scotland for example, we have a phrase "wan ae they wans". Means basically "one of those ones", they change the 'those' to 'they', but everyone knows exactly what it means, no one except maybe a pathetic snobby posh person would call them out on it. Every language has them.
Or a more-broad range one, "let's see if we can't do anything about that", it makes just as much sense as to say "I ain't got no money", but everyone knows what it means, stop nit-picking.
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Nothing to do with education, admittedly it is an American thing from my experience, but they don't REALLY believe that that is proper use of the English language, as I said above, it's slang.
No no - I could care less about the topic at hand, for example if it were a pile of horse manure.
"Hey man, you should come outside and hang out."
"Nah, I have this new fire emblem game I'm playing."
"Dude, we're all going to the movies."
"Man, I could care less about the movies."
He cares less about the horse manure than the movies.
I tried to explain double negatives to my Spanish teacher...I do not think he really ever understood it:/.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
It only makes sense in English. "Cult" language or slang or something.
"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you." -Mazer Rackham - Ender's Game Orson Scott Card