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Originally Posted by chaley
Folks,
Trying to lower the volume a bit...
The OP lives in Paris, making it a reasonable assumption that French is his mother tongue. In French, the word 'demander' is used for both 'ask' and 'demand'. It took me a long time to internalize that when a French-speaker uses 'demand' in English, s/he is using the familiar word and almost certainly means 'ask'...
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What you say regarding French may be true (I have no reason to believe you would be wrong) but the OP's attitude throughout this thread strongly suggests otherwise.