From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 20:55:04 CEST
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:19:03PM -0400, Richard Holt nicely wrote:
> I don't find it offensive. It is realistic. Yes, he should have spelled your name right but it's no big deal.
Well. I received a unique diagnosis and I'm totally convinced.
Languages differs one from another and, often, the right exegesis requires
a synoptical discussion (Bible translation, for example).
I used the word "exegesis" in the right sense, because the real meaning was
different from the byte-to-byte translation, believe me.
Indeed, literal translation in my language was:
"chiedo aiuto gratis"
very far from Lenon's intention, as it reported in a private message.
Sometime languages differences does some bad joke, and many times in the
past I misunderstod sentences from this mailing-list.
In addition, to be honest, I'm also a little ... touchy (permaloso) :-(
I apologize for that and - if Lenon is really on the list - expecially
with him: please, do not leave the list caused by this little accident.
Michele
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