On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 20:26:43 PM +0100, Daniel Carrera
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Chad Smith wrote:
> 
> >"Start pretending that their governments use ODF?"
> >
> >What kind of rational sense does that make? When do rationality and
> >make-believe belong in the same sentence?
> 
> English is not Marco's first language. I think that we can figure out 
> what he meant to say. The word "encourage" would be closer to Marco's 
> meaning.

Thanks. You're right of course. In Italian, as anybody can check in
any dictionary, the verb "pretendere" means "to require". That's why I
*always* end up using "to pretend" when I mean "to require", sorry.

> Of course, you are no set on trolling that you are unable give a
> second thought to what people say.

You're optimist. I'm still waiting for his _first_ thought ever...

Marco

-- 
Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/

Democracy has never just been about elections... it also means control
through reasoned discourse.                          L. Lessig, Free Culture

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