In the US, "could care less" and "couldn't care less" mean the same thing.
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Aug 23, 2024
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I bet they have discovered 'inflammable' and 'flammable' by now.
Only to the under-educated.
The yanks tend, incorrectly, to use the former.
Only today in a news ticker I saw the shocking news that Russia is using "indetectable" drones in Ukraine.
The rise of the machines has been grossly over hyped ....
And as we're miles off topic, can someone tell me the difference between 'disinformation' and 'misinformation'? And how does 'normalcy' differ from 'normality'?
Normalcy - like bigly - is a real old 19th century word. FDR liked it (so we had to learn it for history).
Mis and dis (IMHO) are facets of the subtleties of language (not necessarily just English) that 95% of native speakers have no f****ng idea about. Personally I just use them as another way to gauge the quality of intellect behind any given statement.
"Mis" information is information that is just incorrect for whatever reason. Could be a typo, a misunderstanding, incomplete facts. It's wrong, but that's all that can be said.
"Dis" information is information which has been deliberately made incorrect. With all that implies.
It's a two way street with other languages which does make getting the
*sense* of a translation challenging. From memory German has two forms of the word for accidental. But the only way to really convey the difference is to say "It was an "accidental" operation that caused the problem" as opposed to "It was an accidental operation that cause the problem" (there is word "zufall" involved).eats shoots and leaves
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