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

John Du Hart compwhizii at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 11:27:03 UTC 2012


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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