Honestly, I hear "I could care less" from grammarians complaining about it about 100 times as often as I hear anyone actually use it real life. I agree that its a silly expression, but sometimes it seems like grammarians are trying find a problem that isn't there.
Hold down the fort makes a lot of sense if you live somewhere where hurricanes are a frequent occurrence.
edited 7th Jul '12 9:54:11 AM by EdwardsGrizzly
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Technically, if I'm acknowledging something, it means I must care enough about it to say I don't care about it. I could care less about it by just not even acknowledging it in the first place, but it wouldn't be much less caring about it than I already do by saying I could care less. In this case the real saying should be "I really couldn't care less than the minimum possible amount needed to still acknowledge the existence of this but not worry about it beyond that", but that's very long and time consuming.
And what if my fort is a bouncy castle? I'm not sure why it would be, but it's a realistic situation that would require my fort to be held down to keep the wind and enemies from just taking it while I'm away.
edited 7th Jul '12 2:05:40 PM by Malph
Meh, I couldn't care less about people who nitpick about grammar.
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Heh. The Americans and their inability to follow the internal logic of the words coming out of their own mouths amuse me.
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Uniocular
I've heard plenty of English people say "I could care less," it isn't solely an American thing, it's a "native English speaking" thing.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
'80s TV Action Hero
It's a moron thing, really. It's just that most people you hear/see using it tend to be Americans on teh interwebz.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Uh is this just complaining about stupid language shit like whether or not "irregardless" is a word?
Uniocular
'80s TV Action Hero
Damn right. Everyone knows that people who say things like 'irregardless' or 'could care less' are morons with worthless opinions.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
This came to mind for some reason. 
Sneering Imperialist
I'll admit, the one that bugs me most is the use of "most" as a replacement for "almost" e.g. "most everyone went to the pub" instead of "almost everyone went to the pub". This isn't actually an Americanism - its usage dates back to the 1500s or so, I think, but I suppose it's one of those oddities that was dropped from British English but remained in American English. Of course, if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
See also "I wrote <person>", instead of "I wrote to <person>".
edited 9th Jul '12 8:51:47 AM by pagad
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What about the date, Pagad? WHAT ABOUT THE DAAAATTEEE
Sneering Imperialist
MM/DD/YYYY is just plain silly.
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And illogical. Don't forget that part. And grammatically incorrect, too.
The ninth day of the month of July in the year twenty-twelve.
Or;
The month of July... the ninth day...
HOW DO GRAMMAR
We write it how we say it.
M/D/Y is awesome! 
We say it's July 9th, 2012. The 7th month, 9th day, 2012th year since we decided to use AD. So that's how we write it.
And, while I agree that Day/Month/Year makes more sense, I'm kinda stuck doing Month/Day/Year since most people in the country would read 9/7/2012 as September 7th, 2012 and think I don't know what month or day it is. Or they'd read a date like 13/7/2012 as "Smarch 7th, 2012" and think I'm the stupid one.
edited 9th Jul '12 1:54:44 PM by Malph
But that's not grammatically correct!
It's the ninth day of the seventh month, It can't be the seventh month of... err... well, not grammatically correct.
Hehe. That's my birthday.
Not really, I just picked it because Smarch is the only 13th month I could think of.
Also, my birthday just becomes December 2nd if I put it grammatically correct way.
edited 9th Jul '12 1:58:36 PM by Malph
Smarch?
Wtf.
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It's a joke from The Simpsons involving a misprinted calender with 13 months.
edited 9th Jul '12 2:00:07 PM by Malph
Ahhh.
Okidoke.
I wonder why you guys write the date like that. No other country (besides Libera, oddly. I don't even know what the heck that is) uses MDY.
"besides Libera"
Libera is an African nation that was started and funded by the United States and colonized by free slaves.
Huhhh. Interesting. Explains why they're also the only other country to use the oddperial system to measure things.
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