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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Semantic Reversals
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 19:27:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 19:27:00 1985
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> Another reversal found in common use:
> 	"I could care less"
> to mean
> 	"I couldn't care less"
> 
> Probably derives from an ironic use.
> -- 
>    Mike Urban

More likely from carelessness.  People don't often bother to think what
phrases like this really mean; they just become idiomatic.

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