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[-] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

Wittgenstein said that language isn't actually semantic in its natural state. Instead, language serves as a sort of game to accomplish social ends.

"I could care less" serves the social end of telling everyone you have no critical thinking skills and shouldn't be taken seriously.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Lol, that second thought boomed me pretty good, thanks

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Delete it now

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lol.

On a slightly more serious note, it makes dry humor a bit harder to land since you can't rely on subtlety as much. Like "I could care less about my SO" in context where it's the punchline of a misdirection joke.

Such is life though.

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