(just as an aside) I always thought that people who said 'I could care less' somehow hadn't heard the 'nt' and didn't consciously parse the grammar of the sentence, making it a kind of frozen form. Similar in process to how people (in my area in Canada) at one time would reply to 'no way' with 'yes way'....
K >>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:46 PM, in message <4ec2a561.3040...@rhul.ac.uk>, Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > I think it made more sense with "can't", Herb, > but that could be a trans-Atlantic difference > of usage -- you would, I think, say "I could care > less" where I would say "I couldn't care less". > > ** Phil. > -------- > Herbert Schulz wrote: >> >> What I meant to say was... >> >> So what you are saying is not that you can control the catcode of a > particular character but that you can't change it after it is set and in > TeX's ``stomach.'' That I can agree with. >> >> (notice the can't control ---> can control) > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
