16 Aug
2021
16 Aug
'21
8:01 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 5:44 PM Federico Salerno
"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.
If THAT'S what it is, why couldn't someone say so earlier??? If Marco had simply reworded it saying "I demand your immediate excuses", we would at least have understood. ChrisA