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W dniu 16.01.2025 o 00:47, Python pisze:
> Le 15/01/2025 à 20:40, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>> W dniu 15.01.2025 o 19:54, Python pisze:
>>> Le 15/01/2025 à 19:45, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>>>> ... I'am an engineer,
>>>> So I am not pretending [being] one.
>>>
>>> "One of the best logician Humanity ever had" (ah ah ah!) doesn't know 
>>> that there it is perfectly possible to pretend being something AND 
>>> being so as well as to pretend something AND no being so.
>>
>>
>> pretend
>> /prɪˈtɛnd/
>> verb
>> 1.
>> behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact 
>> it is not.
> 
> My mistake! (thank you, for once you are right, I learnt something).
> 
> It happens that the French verb "prétendre" (same latin roots) has a 
> slightly different meaning :
> 
> "Demander quelque chose, le revendiquer pour soi. prétendre (se) v.pr. 
> Dire, affirmer qu'on est tel, malgré les doutes possibles." (Larousse 
> dictionary)
> 
> "to affirm that one is such, *despite* being doubtful"
> 
> which is a little weaker than the English acception, which happens to 
> be: "to affirm that one is such, *while* it is false".
> 
> Could any native English speakers here confirm this point? That in 
> English "to pretend to be a dog" implies that you are NOT a dog, while 
> in French "prétendre être un chien" does not exclude the the subject 
> *may be* a dog, even if it is doubtful.
> 
> Thank you Maciej, anyway.

Oh, great!
Have you also learnt, that nurses waiting
to change my sheets are a false statement
intended to damage my reputation, i.e. a
"slander"?