Another idiom I wish were gone from phobos/druntime

Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 5 05:47:16 PST 2015


On 2/5/2015 5:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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
>

I can't phantom that!


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