[Magdalen] Supreme Court

[Sally Davies]

Quite so, Sib! Makes no sense at all.

The "life's too short" part of me couldn't care less but my editor persona
continues to complain!

Sally D

On Monday, June 29, 2015, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 6/28/15 9:06 PM, Lesley de Voil wrote:
>
>> I think Roger may have caught on by now, but Martin may not recognise
>> that when Jim says "could care less" in Americanese he means "couldn't
>> care less" in ye olde Englishe<g>
>>
>
> I first heard that when I was about seventeen or eighteen, in the early
> sixties, when my roommate made a habit of using it.  I'd never heard it
> here in Kansas, and she was an Army Brat, who'd lived all over the world,
> including Japan and Maryland.  I have no idea where it started, but I'd
> heard enough movies and television that I _should_ have heard it, if it
> were common then.  The illogic of it bothered me then, and it's irritated
> me ever since, every time I heard it.
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>