End of ADS-L Digest - 5 Oct 1994 to 6 Oct 1994

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There are 13 messages totalling 313 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. I don't care (to)

 2. Name that syntagm (8)

 3. -"had" Constructions (3)

 4. Positive "don't care to"



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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.