Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> writes: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Yuvgoog Greenle <ubershme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > > wrote: > [...] > > > Sorry Benny but you were convinced by an invalid argument. > > Maybe you know Ben personally and maybe it's different in your > culture, but to me it sounds pretty derogatory to call someone "Benny" > who signs as "Ben".
This is all true, and I agree with Guido that care needs to be taken; “Benny” is a diminutive of “Ben”. Overly familiar, unless one knows the person intimately. Yuvgoog Greenle <ubershme...@gmail.com> writes: > First of all I'd like to apologize to Ben, this may sound like a lame > excuse but I guess Ben Finney somehow turned into Benny because of my > lack of sleep. So again sorry for that, I really didn't mean it that > way. No harm done (in this case I assumed it was a cultural slip). Apology accepted. -- \ “And if I laugh at any mortal thing, / 'Tis that I may not | `\ weep.” —“Lord” George Gordon Noel Byron, _Don Juan_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
