i could care less Options

[brooklyneast05]

does it drive you crazy when people say "i could care less" instead of "i couldn't care less"?


it makes me crazy, becuase it makes no sense. why do 50% of people say this phrase wrong? my brother says it to me all the time and i don't understand why he can't figure out that it's wrong. if you're trying to say you don't care, and you say you COULD care less...then you're saying you care. you have to care to be able to care less.


i think i already made a topic about this before, but it's just one of those things that gets to me for some reason.


what are other things like this that people say wrong all the time to you?

[Gryffindor-Girl]

This is the one that bothers me the most! When people say "I did good" HELLO it is supposed to be "I did well" or "I did a good job". You cannot "do good" at something you can however "do a good job" at something. Oh also when you say "you did good" to others you are supposed to say "you did well" or "you did a good job".

[Gigi]

This is the one that bothers me the most! When people say "I did good" HELLO it is supposed to be "I did well" or "I did a good job". You cannot "do good" at something you can however "do a good job" at something. Oh also when you say "you did good" to others you are supposed to say "you did well" or "you did a good job".

That is totally one of my biggest pet peeves. When I'm watching a reality show with my brother, and one of the contestants says "We did good," we'll both scream "WELL, you did WELL" at the TV.

I never really made that much of a deal out of it until I had a meeting with my counselor once, and she asked me how I was doing, and I replied with "I'm doing well, thank you." And she complimented me on my good grammar. So using "well" correctly makes a good impression.

[Joanne]

I never really made that much of a deal out of it until I had a meeting with my counselor once, and she asked me how I was doing, and I replied with "I'm doing well, thank you." And she complimented me on my good grammar. So using "well" correctly makes a good impression.

What if someone asked "How are you?" Is it okay to say "I'm good" instead of "I'm well" then?

[karmakiller]

What if someone asked "How are you?" Is it okay to say "I'm good" instead of "I'm well" then?

When I go places and someone asks "How are you?" I usually just say "Good, you?". It would probably sound weird to them if I said, "Well, you?".