Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Thu Feb 19 17:48:24 PST 2009


Jarrett Billingsley escribió:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> 
>>>> Also, "I think I don't like X" is not proper English.  Say "I don't think
>>>> I like X" or just "I don't like X" instead.<
>> To Jarrett: why isn't it proper English? It makes sense to me.
> 
> Andrei did a pretty good job of explaining indirectly why it's wrong ;)
> 
> If you say "I think <something about myself>", it sounds very strange,
> because it sounds like you don't know what's going on in your own
> brain.  "I think X" often means "I'm not sure of X", so saying that
> you're unsure of what you do or don't like sounds odd indeed.

I think you're right.



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