On 16/08/2021 08:41, Federico Salerno 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.
I reached the same conclusion with the help of:
https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/pretendere#Etimologia_/_Derivazione . Pop
open the translations (Traduzioine). English has diverged from the
latin, as explained elsewhere on the thread.
It's all easily explained by a misunderstanding of Steven's remark about
upvotes (to agree with the answer provided by Monica) and subsequent
frustration in being unable to make oneself understood.
Either way, from an outsider's perspective this whole bickering over
such a small thing seems unfit for a list where adults talk about
technical details. It seems to me that someone should swallow their
pride and let this thread drop once and for all, it's not bringing
anything useful or relevant.
Quite possibly. But I've offered a grown-up response in a separate post.
--
Jeff Allen
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