Another idiom I wish were gone from phobos/druntime

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 5 00:22:14 PST 2015


On Thursday, February 05, 2015 08:13:32 eles via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 06:55:09 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 06:51:35 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld
> > wrote:
> >> I could care less
> >
> > Er, stupid but unfortunately common american english idiom. For
>
> Thanks. I was firmly convinced that's a typo...

No. It's just a frustratingly common mistake - like saying "for all
intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes."
Unfortunately, many folks couldn't care less about getting it right...

- Jonathan M Davis



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