eliminate junk from std.string?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:39:11 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 1/11/11 6:29 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>> Hi Andrei,
>>>
>>> It looks nice. Just a small comment: in many of your comments you use 
>>> words that
>>> not all of us might now. For instance: "sans". I happen to know it 
>>> because I
>>> studied French, but otherwise I wouldn't know that. I just showed that 
>>> phrase to a
>>> colleague here in Argentina and he didn't understand it. He thought it 
>>> maybe meant
>>> "since". Maybe "sans" and "in lieu" are memes there in the USA, but not
>>> everywhere. So please, stick with English. :-)
>>
>> Okay. I think "sans" is Walter's...
>
> sans is in the english dictionary:
>
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sans
>
> According to that reference, Shakespeare used it :)  Don't think you can 
> get more English than that...
>

Thoust words are true.

Seriously though, I'm pretty sure a lot of native english speakers don't 
know "sans" either, unless they're familiar with font-related terminology. 
"In lieu of" is widely-known though, at least in the US.