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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From: </font><span name="Paul Finlow-Bates" class="" style="font-size:13px">Paul Finlow-Bates</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Literature" 2014.01.03 (01) [EN]</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt">I think (2) is classic double negative for emphasis: 'I ain't no way doing that!'<br>
(1) sounds just plain wrong!<span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt">
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From: </font><span name="M.-L. Lessing" class="" style="font-size:13px">M.-L. Lessing</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.03 (02) [EN]</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Happy new year, dear Ron and all!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font> </div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The expressions you name do surprise me. While the second example looks like a sort of double negation and may be quite intelligible in any context, your first example "I could care less" is something I would have taken literally, had I ever heard it; i.e. I would have translated it as "yes, that means something to me" or even, depending on accentuation, as a Litotes, meaning "This means a lot to me, I care immensely, this is the apple of my eye to me". I might have been pretty confused in certain contexts!!! Frustrating. Language ought to be reliable and reasonable, if not logical. What if somebody uses the words (quite correctly) like this and is misunderstood? I'd put the blame on those people who twisted the meaning of the phrase into its opposite.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font> </div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so I'm already doing the finest thing humans can do: putting the blame on somebody! Wow, the year starts fine :-)</font></div>
<div> </div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hartlich</font></div><div> </div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marlou</font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt">
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