Phraseology

I'm surprised that people still misuse the phrase '...another think coming', as in:

But if Dannai thinks that's going to stop him from doing everything in his power to make her his mate, the little witch has another thing coming.

I'm not reading the book that this blurb comes from, and a major part of the reason (besides the werewolves) is that it should read, 'If whoever thinks blah blah blah, then they have another THINK coming'. Not 'thing'. That doesn't make any sense! Someone thinks, they have another think! Think/think, see? It's not think/THING. That's just dumb.

Also, could we please deal with the whole 'could care less' debacle? The idea is that a person 'couldn't care less', as in could not possibly have any less interest in a person/situation than they do at the moment. (They are lying, of course, but that's dramatic irony, and a whole other misused issue.) When people say that they 'could care less' they are saying that they still have a certain level of caring and that it could be lower - i.e., THEY STILL CARE, when in fact they mean to say that they do not care at all any longer. 'COULDN'T care LESS.' That contraction is important, as it's the difference between a life of cool, detached sophistication and the sure fact that you'll be taking the lyin', cheatin' idiot back the minute they show up with puppy-dog eyes and a half-wilted flower. Don't be the doormat!

In conclusion:

If that lyin', cheatin' idiot thinks that Dannai could care less about his puppy-dog eyes and stupid flowers, he's got another think coming. That think, of course, is the concept that he can take his grocery-store rejects and shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because she COULDN'T care less about him and his redneck monster truck, having moved on to a life of cool, detached sophistication involving a yacht and a vaguely French accent. 

See? Now that's a book I'd read.

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