Date:  Fri, 7 Oct 1994 19:28:32 -0500

From:  "Timothy C. Frazer" <mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Name that syntagm



On Fri, 7 Oct 1994, Bethany Dumas, UTK wrote:



> 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

>

No, you're not. I believe!



Tim Frazer