I've never understood this phrase, and I always hear it. Someone saying they could care less about something. Wouldn't it make more sense as "I couldn't care less"? Is that how it's supposed to be but it slowly transitioned into the way it is now? Drumbeat question, I know, but I'm still curious about it all the same.

It is supposed to be "i couldn't care less" but has changed into i "could care less" by the masses, the same kind of people that call duct tape duck tape, and so on.

Just people repeating something they heard without knowing exactly what was being said.

It's a common grammatical error. Don't think too much about it.

I think it's more accurate that way anyway. I mean I'm sure you could care less even though you mean to say you couldn't.

That's what I figured. Just when I hear dumb things like that it really irks me for no apparent reason.

I could care less honestly. I see it alot but it ain't don't bother me none.

By the gods. What have you created?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aPNRgS-Y7hE#t=21.

I've used it once or twice, but now say it the correct way.

I could care less, but I just don't care to care less.

Wait, this is a thread about a gramatical error? I don't think anyone really care and I agree that most people probably could care less.

But you find gramatical errors everywhere in daily speech, I mean, some places on the east coast of the US, they use double negatives such as "I won't tell nobody"

I don't think there are a whole lot of people that speak "proper" if it's their mother tongue.

Or every rapper known to man also like to use double negatives "I don't know nothin'!!"

I find my verbal grammar is a train wreck, with my written or text grammar, I try to be proper.

I just don't care about my verbal grammar, use to be good, now its, well, you'd have to hear it,

I really could care a whole lot less. I don't really care when people misuse it. It just doesn't bother me too much.

I could care less, but it would take way too much effort. Not worth it.

It's annoying, but it literally doesn't bother me as much as people that don't know how to use 'literally' correctly.

Funny, but is it "people that" or "people who", Pluto?

I think like 99% of the people in the world use the term "literally" improperly. So much so, that it literally doesn't bother me anymore.

Yeah http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.fi/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html are pretty friendly creatures

http://www.arixystix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/alotmonster03.jpg

That must have taken alot of time and alot of effort to make. I have alot of respect for the artist.

Damn knowitalls...

http://thefrustratedoptimist.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/caring.png

Meh, say it correctly.

Even if one really could care less in reality, is there really any point in saying it?

It's really supposed to be 'I couldn't care less' because you're saying your Care-o-Meter about something is at rock bottom, you honestly couldn't care any less about that something. 'Could care less' implies that while you don't wholly care about something, it's not rock bottom.

The one I never understood was "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I do it all the time. I have it and I eat it.

Now I could understand if some one told me that you can't eat it and have it too. That makes sense.