On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Robert K.
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2009/5/12 Arun K. [email protected]:
I want to know about authentication in ruby. Is it possible to scrap
html of those sites which require basic authentication.I am not a native speaker but for all I know “want” is considered
impolite among English speaking people.
I wouldn’t say so. To want carries the same basic connotation as
vouloir in French, I don’t know that je veut, or je voudrais is more
impolite than say j’aimerais and I’d think that the average native
English speaker would consider both I want, or I would like to be
socially acceptable expressions of a desire for something.
If we are talking about faux amis, one of the tricky French-English
ones is demander, which translates properly in English to “to ask”
whereas do demand in English means something more like exiger in
French, and would probably be perceived as a step up the rudeness
scale.
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