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2004-08-21 - 9:55 a.m. Okay! The consensus is in... We were right and the book was wrong. "I could care less" is incorrect. As confirmed by Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, the double negative rule does NOT apply. "I could care less" does, in fact, "destroy the meaning of the sentence and is careless indeed." Oh, and a gerund is a verb ending in "ing" that is used as a noun as in, "Hiking is fun." Just in case you were wondering. � 
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