10th September 2003, 1:49 PM
Slang? They are expressions, not slang. Slang is a made up word like "shizzle". Your point is kinda the same though, except the "could care less" form came after the "couldn't care less" form as a bastardized version of it, thus inferior and deserving of being scourged from the English language.
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