I Don't Understand AMERICAN ENGLISH!!!!!

136,005 views ・ 2017-10-18

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America, we need to talk!
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Now when you told me that jam was actually jelly I didn't mind.
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When you told me that coriander was cilantro I was ok with that.
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When you told me that get got got was actually get got gotten, it was hard but I worked through
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it.
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Now I'm still not sure that pissed should be angry and not drunk, but ok don't worry
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about that one.
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But what the hell is an eggplant and why doesn't it look like this?
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If petrol is gas, then what's gas?
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And trousers being pants, that's so confusing guys!
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And don't get me started on fanny packs.
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Don't get me started!
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Now I accept all these differences, after all English is a beautiful rich language where
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variety should be celebrated.
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But guys there is one phrase, one phrase that I cannot accept America.
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I cannot accept it.
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'I could care less' I could care less doesn't make any sense.
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In British English we have a phrase 'I couldn't care less' which means that you don't care
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about something that you are not worried about something.
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That, yeah, whatever, I don't mind.
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So for example somebody tells me that Dave thinks I'm rude.
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I couldn't care less what Dave thinks.
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I couldn't care less.
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I don't care, whatever!
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Dave can think whatever he wants.
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Now that phrase, I couldn't care less, everything is explained in that sentence.
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Here's how much I care.
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I don't care and i cannot care any less.
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Nothing.
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This is the lowest I can go of caring which is zero.
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There is no more below it.
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This is zero, I care not at all.
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Now in American English 'I could care less' it has the same meaning as 'I couldn't care
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less'.
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But wait!
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I could care less.
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What?
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There's more caring, I could care less.
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So this is how much I care and they are saying I could care less.
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That means that I could care this much or this much.
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What?
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But wait, if you are saying that you don't care why are you saying that you could care
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less.
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This doesn't make sense.
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You could care less surely then there is more here.
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I could care less, here, here?
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Where is the bottom?
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It doesn't make sense.
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If you could care less, you could care less.
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So you care a little bit is what you are telling me.
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If you are saying I could care less, you are telling me that you care at least a little
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bit.
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But that's not what you mean.
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You mean you don't care.
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If you don't care surely you would say 'I couldn't care less.'
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There's nothing more for me to care.
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This one guys, I'm sorry I don't understand.
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If somebody can help me understand this, let me know in the comments below.
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Of course you know I love American English and all the incredible vocabulary and phrases
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that come from American English and American culture, but this one I don't really understand.
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But if anyone could explain it to me I would love that.
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Than you for watching guys as always.
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Remember I've got new videos every Tuesday, every Friday keeping you up to date with the
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latest English and helping you take your English to the next level.
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This is Tom, the Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.
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