Letter: Get it right

Good grief! Anyone would think we were knee-deep in cigarette butts the way people keep banging on about drivers throwing them out of their windows. The things are bio-degradable, so get over it. In last Sunday’s letter of the day on the subject, the writer says she “could care less who smokes and where.” I’m sure she meant couldn’t, because otherwise it doesn’t make sense. If you could care less about something, it means you do, in fact, care to some extent.

Another letter included this phrase: “the U.S. reputation as a moral nation worthy of supper power leadership.”

Yet another told us that we “lack for nothing.” The letters page is getting to be funnier than the comics.

On Saturday, a letter made reference to Mao Zedung (aaargh!), but I know that was your fault, because you’ve made the same mistake before. Doesn’t anyone proof-read anymore? If not, why not? Typos like this make a serious letter writer look silly. I’ve tried hard to ignore such mistakes, I’ve even tried repeating to myself “I couldn’t care less, I couldn’t care less,” but nothing works, so could you please try a little harder to get it right?

Nina Mold/Naples