these graphics Tony hawk pro skater 5 WTF

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It's couldn't*

Now stop bytchin nikka :mjlol:
OK :mjlol:

Grammatically yes. But it's a commonly used idiom for over 60 years in American culture. And idioms by definition don't need to be logical grammatically.

There are dozens of positive/negative phrase pairs in the English language.

Like head over heels. Or I can hardly wait. Or that will teach you to ...

All wrong usage of positives/negatives but accepted common idioms in English.

Never mind that this has nothing to do with the discussion anyway. Plus I'm on an Internet forum on an iPhone so who cares about perfect grammar? Stop being a language snob.

Yes I'm mad :mjcry:
 
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Game looks like a remaster :mjlol:

Atleast change the camera lens, make it wide or something. Its not like thps can be made graphics heavy but they didnt even try. Skateparks are the simplest looking shyt IRL.

On a side note, all that static electricity shyt looks fukking stupid, imma still copt tho.
 

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OK :mjlol:

Grammatically yes. But it's a commonly used idiom for over 60 years in American culture. And idioms by definition don't need to be logical grammatically.

There are dozens of positive/negative phrase pairs in the English language.

Like head over heels. Or I can hardly wait. Or that will teach you to ...

All wrong usage of positives/negatives but accepted common idioms in English.
No
 

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No what? I acknowledged it's incorrect grammatically, but it is a commonly used idiom. It's in the Webster American Idioms Handbook.
Idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words, or a particular fixed phrase of ordinary usage.

http://blog.dictionary.com/could-care-less/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_...irrational_or_ungrammatical_as_you_might.html

The argument of logic falls apart when you consider the fact that both these phrases are idioms. In English, along with other languages, idioms are not required to follow logic, and to point out the lack of logic in one idiom and not all idioms is…illogical. Take the expression “head over heels,” which makes far less sense than the expression “heels over head” when you think about the physics of a somersault. It turns out “heels over head” entered English around 1400, over 250 years before “head over heels,” however, the “logical” version of this idiom has not been in popular usage since the late Victorian era.

Positive/negative phrase pairs

Why use "could care less" if we also have "couldn't care less"? There are other pairs of phrases in English about which you could ask the same question. Why say "that will teach you to leave your car unlocked" when you really mean "that will teach you not to leave your car unlocked." Some other phrases that can mean the same thing with or without the negation:

You know squat about that. You don't know squat about that.
I wonder whether we can make that work. I wonder whether we can't make that work.
You shouldn't go, I think. You shouldn't go, I don't think.
I can hardly wait. I can't hardly wait.

Evidence for the use of "could care less" goes back to 1955, with "couldn't care less" appearing only about 10 years before that. But long before that the phrase "No one could care less than I" was in use.

Idioms don't care about logic

People might not have any thought of sarcasm, positive/negative phrase pairs, or implied comparison when they use "I could care less," but when they use it, it's as a set idiom, something they've heard before and learned as a unit. We have plenty of idioms that serve us perfectly well, despite the gaps in logic that appear if you look at them too closely. Consider "head over heels" (shouldn't it be heels over head?) or "have your cake and eat it too?" (shouldn't it be eat your cake and have it too?) or "the exception proves the rule" (shouldn't it be the exception invalidates the rule?). There are reasons these idioms developed the way they did, but we don't have to know anything about those reasons, or the original meanings, to use them perfectly sensibly. Same goes for "I could care less," which people only ever use to mean "I couldn't care less," never the opposite. It doesn't cause legitimate confusion, though it does cause quite a bit of consternation. In any case, it's here to stay.

Can we get back to shytty graphics :mjlol: :snoop:
 
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No what? I acknowledged it's incorrect grammatically, but it is a commonly used idiom. It's in the Webster American Idioms Handbook.
Idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words, or a particular fixed phrase of ordinary usage.

http://blog.dictionary.com/could-care-less/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_...irrational_or_ungrammatical_as_you_might.html

The argument of logic falls apart when you consider the fact that both these phrases are idioms. In English, along with other languages, idioms are not required to follow logic, and to point out the lack of logic in one idiom and not all idioms is…illogical. Take the expression “head over heels,” which makes far less sense than the expression “heels over head” when you think about the physics of a somersault. It turns out “heels over head” entered English around 1400, over 250 years before “head over heels,” however, the “logical” version of this idiom has not been in popular usage since the late Victorian era.

Positive/negative phrase pairs

Why use "could care less" if we also have "couldn't care less"? There are other pairs of phrases in English about which you could ask the same question. Why say "that will teach you to leave your car unlocked" when you really mean "that will teach you not to leave your car unlocked." Some other phrases that can mean the same thing with or without the negation:

You know squat about that. You don't know squat about that.
I wonder whether we can make that work. I wonder whether we can't make that work.
You shouldn't go, I think. You shouldn't go, I don't think.
I can hardly wait. I can't hardly wait.

Evidence for the use of "could care less" goes back to 1955, with "couldn't care less" appearing only about 10 years before that. But long before that the phrase "No one could care less than I" was in use.

Idioms don't care about logic

People might not have any thought of sarcasm, positive/negative phrase pairs, or implied comparison when they use "I could care less," but when they use it, it's as a set idiom, something they've heard before and learned as a unit. We have plenty of idioms that serve us perfectly well, despite the gaps in logic that appear if you look at them too closely. Consider "head over heels" (shouldn't it be heels over head?) or "have your cake and eat it too?" (shouldn't it be eat your cake and have it too?) or "the exception proves the rule" (shouldn't it be the exception invalidates the rule?). There are reasons these idioms developed the way they did, but we don't have to know anything about those reasons, or the original meanings, to use them perfectly sensibly. Same goes for "I could care less," which people only ever use to mean "I couldn't care less," never the opposite. It doesn't cause legitimate confusion, though it does cause quite a bit of consternation. In any case, it's here to stay.

Can we get back to shytty graphics :mjlol: :snoop:
No, its wrong.
 
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