[Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

[John Du Hart]

Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was calling
you stupid, he simply misspelled your name (shortened it, really).
On Feb 16, 2012 6:10 AM, "Joan Goma" <jrgoma at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jan-Bart,
>
> I am sorry. I didn’t know this is your name and present you publicly my
> more sincere apologies for misstyping it.
>
> I personally know the sensitivity about this kind of issues. My name in
> Catalan sounds completely different with accent than without. “Gomà” is a
> quite extended and ancient Catalan surname while “goma” in Catalan means
> rubber. I had to get used with this many years ago because in Spanish they
> don’t have accents for capital letters that’s how many official documents
> are written and more recently because in many computer keywords there is no
> way to write "à".
>
> I assure you that this mistake has been because I didn’t know and that this
> won’t happen never again.
>
> >Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com
> >Thu Feb 16 04:09:27 UTC 2012
> >
> >Gomà called him Jan at least 3 times today and no one complained.
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