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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Semantic Reversals
Message-ID: <457@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 12:43:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 12:43:34 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 10:39:13 EST
Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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Summary: 


Another reversal found in common use:
	"I could care less"
to mean
	"I couldn't care less"

Probably derives from an ironic use.

	-- 

   Mike Urban
	{ucbvax|decvax}!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban 

"You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"