On 04/03/11 5:58 AM, Sarah wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 23:14, Dan Rosenthal<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: >>> intelectual >> *cough* >> >> -Dan > I hope the next time I write in Portuguese, the only mistake I make is > a typo! :) >
Funny enough I didn't read the "cough" as critical of the spelling. I know that Portuguese and other languages have a more economical attitude than English toward unnecessarily doubled letters. The chosen spelling presents no ambiguities, and no malapropisms to pique my humour, as someone elsewhere recently did by using a wide-angel lens. No, I read it as an ironic cough in the context of the praise for the "true mirror of the high intelectual level of the discussions carried on most Wikimedia projects." Ray _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
