[lukevanoort]

The error that bothers me the most in people's writing AND speech is not a grammatical error, but one of a mis-write/speak of a common expression. Often, I see people talk/write about something then say/write something along the lines of "Of course, it doesn't really matter to me, I could care less what happens." Well, if you think about it, that implies that they both don't care ('doesn't matter to me') and do care because to be able to care less one must care in the first place. So, what they are really saying/writing is "Of course, it doesn't really matter to me, I really do care some," which is 1) a contradiction and 2) not what the speaker/writer meant to say/write. It really should be "I couldn't care less," which implies that the the speaker/writer doesn't care at all because it is impossible for him/her to care less. (Of course, this assumes that there is no such thing as negative caring. I guess one could say that if how much you care must me a positive number or absolute value of a negative one. If you think about it, caring in a negative way is still caring just caring in a mean way, which is still caring. So, how much you care is not a vector quantity, as it only has magnitude, but not direction.... can you tell I'm a math/science person?)