Another idiom I wish were gone from phobos/druntime

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 5 08:33:18 PST 2015


On 2/5/15 5:47 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> 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!

I think we should return to the topic at hand irregardless. -- Andrei



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