Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

[Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2014-05-28 13:05, Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:40:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote:
>>> I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at
>>> first. Natural
>>> language communicates ideas approximately.
>>
>> What bugs me is when people say:
>>
>>    I could care less.
>>
>> when they mean:
>>
>>    I couldn't care less.
>>
>>
>> and:
>>
>>    If you think that, you have another thing coming.
>>
>> when they mean:
>>
>>    If you think that, you have another think coming.
>
> Whats wrong with "If you think that, you have another thing coming."?
>
> I've always understood it sort of like say your Father saying:
>
> "If you think that [i.e. you can steal your little brother's ice cream
> cone], then  you have another thing [i.e no ice cream, but maybe the
> leather strap] coming."
>

It's an old saying, and in more modern English might be phrased "If you 
think that, you have another thought coming", i.e. you'll soon enough 
see why you're wrong.

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   Simen