Hmmmm.  That makes my wife and my father a terrorist.  When I read that headline to my wife last night, followed up with a singsongy addendum, "You're goin' to an internment camp and I'm gonna have a party! Nyeah nyeah nyeah!"  She needs to get out of the house more anyway.

Ok...for those of y'all who are language reactionaries, when a language can no longer grow and change, the language dies.  So, when you run into one of those annoying little things like how one could or could not care less...it's because of the LINGUSTIC features of our language allow for words and phrases to morph and change.  Consider the greeting, "Howdy."  It comes from "How do you do?" all squished together.  No one complains about that?  So, considering the sound of "Couldn't" ends in a glosso-dental nasal followed immediately by an unvoiced glossodental stop, it is not the most salient of the sounds in that word and will eventually evolve out of the language.  We're just hearing it in it's atrophy period. 

The linguistic tendency is that the more info and the more words we have, the less time we have to say them.  So, the evolution of our language tends to lead toward shorter words, acronyms and word hybrids. 

The it's/its thing is NOT the same thing.  It sounds the same.  The offending grammatical incident occurrs when it is written.  I am a HUGE mis-user of the apostrophe /s/ and I'll try to practice the proper structure.

But Percival...substance is far more important here than Grammar.  I use weird pauses and bizarre grammer often to convey an inflection.  So...please...if y'don't have nuthin' to say 'cept for some grammer hints, grab yer red pen, print out our posts and start takin' off points there in the comfort of your cel down at Guantanamo Bay, 'coz that's what they're doin' whitchy'all teachers nowadays anyways.  Just kiddin'. 

Jump in! The water's fine!

PRH