{"id":21170,"date":"2015-09-11T01:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2015-09-11T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:33:11","slug":"caring-more-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=21170","title":{"rendered":"Caring, more or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/1576\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today's xkcd<\/a> starts this way:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I literally could care less\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/xkcdCareLess1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And ends like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/xkcdCareLess2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/xkcdCareLess2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0past care less posts:<\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001182.html\" target=\"_blank\">Caring less with stress<\/a>\", 7\/8\/2004<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001201.html\" target=\"_blank\">Could care less occurs more<\/a>\", 7\/13\/2004<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001202.html\">Negation by association<\/a>\" (7\/13\/2004)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001207.html\">Speaking sarcastically<\/a>\" (7\/13\/2004)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001208.html\">(Auto)biography of a blog thread<\/a>\" (7\/16\/2004)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001209.html\">Most of the people in the world could care less<\/a> (7\/16\/2004)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001256.html\">Caring less all the time: A variant of the etymological fallacy, and some cautions about the pragmatics-phonetics connection<\/a> (7\/24\/2004)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002068.html\">The future of history of usage<\/a> (4\/16\/2005)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002253.html\">The care less train has left the station<\/a> (6\/20\/2005)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002272.html\">Caring more or less<\/a> (6\/29\/2005)<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=290\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Language Log: More or less?<\/a>\", 6\/30\/2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's xkcd starts this way:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics-in-the-funny-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21171,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}