Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:08:36 GMT

From: "Warren A. Brewer" NCUT054[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TWNMOE10.BITNET

Subject: I don't care (to)



This mentioning "I don't care to" in sense of "I'm willing to" reminds

me of my painful experience with "I don't care" as a child in

Maryland. A pedantic adult would ask me a yes/no question, and if

my answer was yes, I'd probably have said "I don't care," until

disapproval must have seared the usage from my youthful lexicon.



This "I don't care to" sure sounds similar.



---Wab.