Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by physicles | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

physicles·

This annoys me to no end as well. I always need to look at the device to see which is which.

Can’t figure out why someone thought this was the best design.

View on HN

Yet is it too late to change (perhaps some people have this in their muscle memory?). And what change would be best?

I think either change is fine. I’ve owned an iPhone for 8 years and can type without looking at the keyboard, but I still can’t remember whether the timer or the alarm has snooze in the middle. Just pick one and be done with it.

This annoys you for no purpose?

I haven't seen "to no end" being used to mean "for no purpose".

But I see GP's usage of "to no end" a lot.

Nice ambiguity in the expression that I’d never noticed that before!

I've always heard it as, "annoys me no end". No "to" in there.

It makes more sense the way the GP wrote it: "to no end" == "without end", though it is ambiguous.

It may make more sense, but that's not the phrase that people use.

I've never heard anyone say, "to no end". It's always just "no end".

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/69501/meaning-an...

That's not the right phrase, it should be "annoys me no end".

Well, TIL. [0] “It annoys me no end” sounds wrong, but disirregardless, thanks internet strangers, I’ll refrain from using this turn of phrase going forward.

(No /s)

0: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/69501/meaning-an...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com