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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by nl on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:58PM (#22540830)
I'm glad it got banned too - bot replies are the worst.

And since it's nit-picking, it's worth noting that the "could/couldn't care less" thing isn't at all as clear-cut as you are making out.

In the early 1990s, the well-known Harvard professor and language writer Stephen Pinker argued that the way most people say “could care less”—the way they emphasize the words—implies they are being ironic or sarcastic along the lines of the Yiddish phrases like “I should be so lucky!” which typically means the speaker doesn’t really expect to be so lucky. Michael Quinion of the wonderful World Wide Words website makes the same argument.

and

Both Merriam-Webster and dictionary.com have weighed in and say “could care less” and “couldn’t care less” mean the same thing. Their reasoning is that both phrases are informal, English is often illogical, and people use the two phrases in the same way. “Could care less” has come to mean the same thing as “couldn’t care less.”

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/could-ca...

Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by zimpenfish on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:32AM (#22544354)