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Re: New Package Developer



On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:46:21AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
> > Michael Weber <michaelw@debian.org> cum veritate scripsit:

> The phrase "cum veritate scripsit" means "wrote truthfully"; you can't
> really say that and then go on to offer a correction.

How does one say "<x> truly wrote the following"?

I think the intended meaning is that the person quoting is attesting to
the accuracy of the quote as spoken/written, not the truth of
representations made in its content.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     "Why do we have to hide from the
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      police, Daddy?"
branden@debian.org                 |     "Because we use vi, son.  They use
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |      emacs."

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