Darac Marjal: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:00 +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> >>> Actually, that is quite sexist. In fact, it's plain and simply sexist >>> which is inappropriate in this community. >> >> Apologize! > > I most certainly will not.
Being a non-native speaker, I think Ralf did not want you to apologize
but he wanted to express his own regret. In German he would have written
"Entschuldigung!" which is a short form of "Ich bitte um Entschuldigung"
which in turn is roughly equal to "Please accept my apology".
J.
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