{"id":12819,"date":"2016-08-30T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2016-08-30T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:29:55","slug":"could-you-care-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12819","title":{"rendered":"Could you care less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which sounds right to you?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I couldn&#8217;t care less about sport.<br \/>\n&#8211; I could care less about sport.<\/p>\n<p>To me the first makes sense and sounds right. It also applies to me &#8211; I have no real interest in sport. So I couldn&#8217;t care any less about it, because I don&#8217;t care about it at all.<\/p>\n<p>The second one sounds a bit strange to me. I would interpret it as meaning that I&#8217;m not really into sport, but do care at least a little about it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use one or both of these expressions? If not, what would you say instead?<\/p>\n<p>How do you express these ideas in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which sounds right to you? &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t care less about sport. &#8211; I could care less about sport. To me the first makes sense and sounds right. It also applies to me &#8211; I have no real interest in sport. So I couldn&#8217;t care any less about it, because I don&#8217;t care about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}