Date:  Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:50:51 -0400

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Name that syntagm



Am I the only linguist in the country who believes that "could care less"

is merely a (highly predictble) phonological reduction of "could

not care less" and not necessarily a pattern involving sarcasm,et.c?



Bethany Dumas = dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utkvx.utk.edu