PS, I’m with you on this ..other than the strong condemnation. I use it as an intelligence filtering device, if they leave out the ‘nt … they silently lose, in my book. They use it right, which is increasingly rare - serious points ...not quite ‘atheist points,’ but getting there.. It’s a lazy copycat culture, if culture at all

"I could care less" means that one cares at least a certain amount, as there exists a level of care below that which one possesses. "I couldn't care less" means that there is no level of care below that one possesses and that therefore one's care is at the minimum possible level. Both make sense. One expresses an absence of care and the other expresses an unquantified but definite amount. Americans simply say the wrong one sometimes when they wish to express total indifference. Brits never do.

For the same reason they use "irregardless".

Die is a bit harsh. But....

......wait for it

....I couldn’t care less

Only some of us are words freaks who pay attention to the literal meaning of words and phrases.

There are two such meaningless phrases, which, of all the Americanisms that have crept into British English, I cannot bear.

The subject of this post is one; it’s meaningless in the context in which it’s used. And it’s not new - it was well established when I was at High School in MA in the 1960s.

The other, and the worst, is ‘can I get xxxxx?’. No, you can’t. The person serving you will get it for you - by all means, you can then have it, and can then tell people that you got it. No shop, restaurant, whatever, in which you have to ask for what you want is going to let you help yourself to it, so why ask if you can? This was also well established in the 1960s

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over t ...

I couldn't care less about this subject.

This is one issue where I could care less.

Now we have the new fun one "I could of"

...because they keep hearing people say it..

To be correct one should say, "I couldn't care less." I prefer DILIGAF.

Isn't the phrase "I couldn't care less"?

And now Tears for Fears take the stage....... everybody wants to rule the world ???