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You can't say "I couldn't care less" with the right feeling. The "n't" just mucks up the rhythm and tone.
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There are five other black butterflies?
To be sure...thousands...lucky to get number six! Or, as my mother used to tell me, "S.Q." which I thought was a French word, marking my first interest in my eventual major. Turns out it was "Silly Question."
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You can't say "I couldn't care less" with the right feeling. The "n't" just mucks up the rhythm and tone.
Perhaps you could separate the contraction for more emphasis on the "not" and tilt your head just so during its utterance.
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just don't ask Yoda to say it...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Imagine Alice's waterpipe-smoking caterpillar...
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Rang you me? [tilt]
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Perhaps you could separate the contraction for more emphasis on the "not" and tilt your head just so during its utterance.
It's still way more limited in its possibilities.
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