What IS it with your basic Americans speaking English these days??? I have noticed so many people screwing up their mother tongue over the past year or so. EVERYONE seems to be letting little mistakes into their everyday speech patterns. It's quite annoying to someone who ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO SPEAK.
And it's not just morons either - there's a computer company that has splashed a grammatically incorrect slogan across billboards all over America. Are you familiar with the phrase: "Think Different"? Well, it should be "Think DifferentLY". Unless they happen to be addressing a person actually named Different, in which case, I don't think it's a very good slogan as my name is Pete.
Another annoyingly noticeable and all too common screw up is the usage of the word "good". If something is tasty, you say: "It tastes good." But if your taste buds are incredibly acute, do you say "They taste good?" No, "They taste well." The psychic on the phone told you things she couldn't have known, so she was good but the prozac you are on doesn't work good on your mood swings, it works WELL. Then there's the OFT misspoken phrase "I couldn't care less." Now EVERYBODY screws this one up and it bugs the CRAP outta me.
When people don't give a damn about something would it be logical to say "I COULD CARE less about the results of that herpes test."? No, it wouldn't - here's why: If you say you COULD CARE less, then, in fact, it WOULD be possible for you to have less care which, in fact, means you DO care about the results of the herpes test at some level when the message you were trying to send was that you did not care at all. Now, if you were to say: "I COULD NOT care less about the results of the herpes test." Then that would make sense, you see? You are saying that you are incapable of having any less amount of care than you already do. So think BEFORE you open your mouth, okay? THANKS!
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