Harold in Clifton Park wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less." Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in the ...

Semantics are important. They tell us what something means. Without semantics you just have a jumble of syntax. The better defined the semantics are, the less likely something is to be mis-interpreted ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...