"I Could Care Less"

        There are certain phrases we have grown up saying and will probably continue to say throughout our lives. The problem is a lot of those phrases are not correct in what we want them to mean. One phrase that I say and didn't think about it until my media writing professor brought it up in class is "I could care less". In actuality it should be "I couldn't care less". When you are fed up or annoyed with something, you don't want  to know more about it, so you don't care about it. "I could care less" only makes you sound like you care about it a lot. Americans tend to use the "I could care less" phrase more than the couldn't one. Even bringing light to the subject might not help. It seems like it's a habit for a lot of people and rather than break that habit, they would just as well go on saying the wrong thing. Most people know what they mean when they say it anyway.
       There are a lot of these phrases and words. Some change over time, while others last for decades. One example is dirt. It originally meant filth, but now we use it to mean soil more than anything else. A phrase that troubles many is "taller than me" or "taller than I". I believe the correct usage would be "taller than me" because me would not be the subject of the sentence. These types of incorrect usages have been around for years. It's not likely that they will change anytime soon. 
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