<p>why would you say “could care less” or “couldn’t care less” when there’s the much better “don’t give a ****”</p>
<p>I tend to avoid typical thursday-friday night college parties for the same reason I avoid typical Greek social life. When everyone’s drinking around you, it’s a struggle not to join in…even for the most disciplined. I already made the decision that I don’t want alcohol to be a part of my life (maybe a little on holidays :p). The adults and older students who I have always looked up to and respected the most either don’t drink or only drink a little on special occasions (people other than my parents included). I don’t respect them merely for the fact that they don’t drink - it’s their entire character and what they do with their life. Those are the people who I want to be when I grow up :). </p>
<p>That being said, I don’t judge people who do choose to drink and I won’t say whether they should or not. That’s not my business. I have friends who do both.</p>
<p>I might as well mention, one of my friends who doesn’t drink goes “out” all the time on the weekends and she does fine with college work, etc. She just goes for the fun of it…even tosses the balls in beer pong without drinking lol.</p>
<p>Yes, but if he can’t give a **** about linguistics, he should not be lecturing people on grammar.</p>
<p>Is this YET ANOTHER Galoisien incarnation?</p>
<p>there’s more than one linguistics major on CC, you know.</p>
<p>I guess since I don’t have a Ph.D. in mathematics then saying 2+2=4 is wrong.</p>
<p>multicultural, you’re an ignorant fool.</p>
<p>I won’t be going to be attending a lot of parties either. I am entering this fall to university and I have never liked beer. In fact, I am emetophobic so beer is out of the question. I am attending the honors college at my university and so <em>hopefully</em> less people on my floor in my dorm are party animals. I know not all of them will be well-behaved, quiet, honors kids but it is nice to hope! hahaha!</p>
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<p>This site has a feature called an ignore list–I suggest you put him on yours.</p>
<p>BTW, that first language log doesn’t prove anything besides the facts that people say “could care less” more often than “couldn’t care less”, and those people are not always teenagers.</p>
<p>Only on CC would a thread about drinking and partying turn into a grammar debate.</p>
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<p>Oh, pray tell.</p>
<p>Because “could care less” is not a matter of 2+2=4. The irony about who is ignorant is striking here. Language is pretty mathematical but “correctness” is dependent on the language community using the language. Part of the fact is due to the whole issue that language is rather arbitrary.</p>
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<p>sorry bad link; I just grabbed the first link I saw; it’s a pretty beaten-to-death discussion at LL to the extent that new posts discuss the finer aspects of the demographics of the use of “could care less / couldn’t” but many of its posts have investigated (through various experiments or data collecting) what people are /really/ thinking when they say X.</p>
<p>In any case, it’s a pretty well-established case among IVY LEAGUE EXPERTS that “could / couldn’t care less” is not a 2+2 = 4 matter.</p>
<p>^What exactly is your point? How is ‘could care less’ in any way right?</p>
<p>to the OP: Like others have said you can goto a party and not drink. And another strategy is to go fill up half the cup with beer and don’t drink it, nobody will care.</p>
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<p>Because the language community accepts it to be so. </p>
<p>see ‘allomorphy’</p>
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<p>to ensure prescriptivism will not be tolerated on CC.</p>
<p>I haven’t read this whole thread so maybe it’s already been suggested. Have you started a facebook fanpage for your school for non drinkers? You can link it to other pages that your school already has and try to round up fans. Perhaps you can update your status’ for the page with interesting facts about alcohol & kids, and combine it with news from the school about kids that have OD’d/had accidents from alcohol. Shouldn’t be hard to find. BE A LEADER, you may be surprised how many kids will be relieved to follow. Good luck!
And for anybody interested in joining our fan page, it is called !MPACT (Mourning Parents ACT) You can guess why. PEACE!</p>
<p>I drink but after thinking it through I’ve been drinking a lot less for the following reasons:</p>
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<li>I know it’s lame but it’s a law that I can’t drink under the age of 21. Even though I don’t like the law, it’s not moral to break it and I should try my best to follow that even though I do drink once in a while.</li>
<li>Why am I drinking? The only reason I drink now is just casually even at parties. I will never drink to get completely wasted. Why should I drink to become someone that I am not? Am I drinking because everyone else does it? I just think it through it a lot more and make sure that when I am not drinking I am drinking for a good reason not because I’m under peer pressure to do so. I also want to make sure that alcohol is not controlling my life because my grandparents were alcoholics and I know that I have family history.</li>
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<p>It’s definitely possible to go to a party and not drink. Just make sure you don’t give in to anyone and just say that you don’t drink and I’m sure people will understand. There are always people at parties not completely drunk and you can hang out with. It’s also entertaining to watch drunk people.</p>
<p>That being said, join lots of clubs, and meet lots of people and eventually you’ll eventually find some people who aren’t out drinking all the time. I’ve found a group of people that I can hang out with through an organization on campus when I don’t feel like going to a party on the weekends.</p>
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<li>You’re lame if you don’t drink.</li>
<li>Don’t try to argue otherwise.</li>
<li>People will think you’re boring if you don’t drink.</li>
<li>Anyone who thinks people who say “could care less” are dumb are dumb themselves, and lame.</li>
<li>Drinking is nice.</li>
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<p>oh what are we drinking when we’re done … glasses of water</p>
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Rule grammatical tolerate doing you not, commendable me.</p>
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Not sure what that has to do with 'Could(‘nt) care less’.</p>
<p>Rules are set by the community and by socio-biological processes. Yes, this can lead to ironic shifts in meaning. The word “nice” is a good example of this.</p>
<p>nice
late 13c., “foolish, stupid, senseless,” from O.Fr. nice “silly, foolish,” from L. nescius “ignorant,” lit. “not-knowing,” from ne- “not” (see un-) + stem of scire “to know.” “The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj.” [Weekley] – from “timid” (pre-1300); to “fussy, fastidious” (late 14c.); to “dainty, delicate” (c.1400); to “precise, careful” (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to “agreeable, delightful” (1769); to “kind, thoughtful” (1830). </p>
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<p>please go back to the enlightened era of the 1950s </p>
<p>kthxbai</p>