On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 5:44 PM Federico Salerno <salerno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Pretendere" in Italian means "to demand", it's a false friend with the > English "pretend". I don't know whether Marco is Italian (the false > friend might also be there between Spanish or whatever other romance > language he speaks and English, for all I know). From a native Italian > speaker's perspective, what he meant was very clear to me, but it's also > clear that an English speaker with no experience of Italian would not be > expected to understand the meaning necessarily. >
If THAT'S what it is, why couldn't someone say so earlier??? If Marco had simply reworded it saying "I demand your immediate excuses", we would at least have understood. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/H2MJPJVFY2MOAVK5MONFKYEDOAYP3MBO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
