tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post8240672220223288698..comments2024-03-18T19:00:03.047-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Couldn't Care LessLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-12580486856525438172017-12-13T20:03:16.727-05:002017-12-13T20:03:16.727-05:00In recent years, 'begs the question' is so...In recent years, 'begs the question' is so often misused to mean 'asks the question', it's far more often used wrongly than correctly.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-7731225240397442412017-12-13T12:41:33.153-05:002017-12-13T12:41:33.153-05:00My mother is from Connecticut & is really old....My mother is from Connecticut & is really old. She's the only person I've ever met who correctly says, "I couldn't care less." Actually I knew someone who would start to say, "I could care less," but truncated the phrase to "I could care."Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00239163766419735693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-67140319877748412462017-12-13T11:42:54.817-05:002017-12-13T11:42:54.817-05:00Fun post, David. I still go back to Orwell's &...Fun post, David. I still go back to Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" and find it ever so relevant now as people twist words to their own advantage...or not.<br /><br />Humpty Dumpty is spot on, isn't he?Steve Liskowhttp://www.steveliskow.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-72480123685976131892017-12-13T10:41:40.331-05:002017-12-13T10:41:40.331-05:00Humpty Dumpty is alive and well and working overti...Humpty Dumpty is alive and well and working overtime in politics, isn't he?<br />Meanwhile, there's a lot of words that have been transformed to unrecognizability: gay, for one (which originally meant 'happy, carefree', then was used as Victorian slang for being a prostitute); let, for another (which, in Elizabeth and Jacobean times meant "to prevent" or "to stop", rather than the current "to allow", or "to rent"), which leads some moderns to some completely opposite interpretations of the KJV. And feminism, which in some circles is the equivalent of demonic Marxism, but to most of us is simply the radical idea that women are people... Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-25255255852613721562017-12-13T09:33:24.045-05:002017-12-13T09:33:24.045-05:00Lewis Carroll is more relevant than ever!Lewis Carroll is more relevant than ever!janice lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-48531428797481070682017-12-13T09:25:04.830-05:002017-12-13T09:25:04.830-05:00Love this column!! Well done.Love this column!! Well done.John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-35743404934205914382017-12-13T09:18:11.110-05:002017-12-13T09:18:11.110-05:00Fun post! Very much enjoyed.
....though I'm a ...Fun post! Very much enjoyed.<br />....though I'm a stickler on the difference between caring less and not able to care less, so.... ;-)Art Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409008167752619352noreply@blogger.com