Fool Me Once Edit: When you think about it, “I could care less” is not really and not always delivered with this prosody and means the same thing as “I couldn’t care less”, so while an interesting and clever defense, the argument is specious. If we are to trust the argument, then we at least ought to expect there to be other cases of crucial prosodic meaning-making beyond this outlier example.
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