Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.

Example:

In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.

  • @brap
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    Americans saying “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”.

    • @proudblond
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      26 days ago

      I’ve seen so many attempts at justification for that one online but I can’t help but think that those people just don’t want to admit that they’re wrong.

      • @SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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        325 days ago

        I say “I couldn’t care less”, but I used to think that “I couldn’t care less” was used in context where someone seemed like they don’t care and they give that as a snarky remark, implying that they can care even less.

    • Admiral Patrick
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      26 days ago

      Obligatory David Mitchell

      I also like the bonus “hold down the fort” at the end.

      Because as you know, it’s an inflatable hover fort and, once relieved of my weight, it might float off into the sky.

    • @LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de
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      425 days ago

      I agree that this is very vaguely irritating, but for me it only differs by one sound and a vowel quality

      “I couldn’t care less” [aɪ̯.kɘ̃ʔ.kɛɹ.lɛs] vs “I could care less” [aɪ̯.kɘ.kɛɹ.lɛs]

    • @davidgro
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      325 days ago

      I care a tiny bit. I could care less, but not easily.

    • @tyler@programming.dev
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      I say “I could care less” and then follow it up with, “but I’d be dead”. Correcting “I could care less” is dumb because you literally can care less about lots of stuff, but saying the phrase indicates you just don’t really care.

      • @Amanduh@lemm.ee
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        525 days ago

        Idk why hoes mad at you this is the cleverest way to mix up the saying while keeping it’s intent.