Howdy Gabriel,
> First, please note that it has been a long time I didn't really looked
> inside of the Lame code, so I'll perhaps tell a few wrong statements.
> (btw, please could anyone explain me when to use the word "tell" and
> when "say"?)
Hmmm... That's actually kind of tricky. Neither is really appropriate in
the phrase above, though I suppose 'say' would be less wrong sounding.
Both say and tell imply speaking, but tell has more of the sense of the
conveying information part of speaking (tell a story, tell time), while say
is more connected with the physicality of speech and/or opinion (?) (what
did/would you say, he said/she said). To tell is to recount or recall; to
say is, broadly, everything else, but especially to opine or speak out loud.
I'm just generalizing, though - there may be many exceptions.
Anyway, I'd _say_, "First, please note that it's been a long time since I
really looked at the Lame source, so I may (perhaps) misspeak myself," or,
"...so I may make some misstatements (mistakes)." The grammar of the former
is beyond my current ability for analysis; the latter is pretty
straightforward subjunctive, just with a simpler/more generic verb.
I doubt that helps,
Alex
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