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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.