[OT] @grammar

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Thu Mar 26 16:47:05 UTC 2020


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:24:01AM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I always look at @safe as the word "safe", not "at-safe". But I see a
> lot of people writing stuff like:
> 
> "You should put an @safe tag on it"
> 
> which reads horribly to me:
> 
> "You should put an safe tag on it"
> 
> Am I the only one who cringes to read this? I bite my tongue and don't
> respond normally, because I'm sure that people read it the other way.
[...]

I also read the @ as a "silent @". :-P

But I tend to ignore grammatical errors these days. I wouldn't survive
very long online if I reacted to every grammatical error I came across
on the Internet, y'know? ;-)


T

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