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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Is marketing speak in Ada wikibook o.K.?
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Manuel Gomez <mgrojo@gmail.com> writes:

> You guessed right! Much of the wikibook have been written by non-native
> English speakers. English is nowadays the lingua franca for
> engineering. Please, forgive our mistakes. It is difficult to write or
> speak a foreign language. You are lucky!

Its difficult indeed!  You're misteaks are forgiven.

OK, let me try again:

It's difficult indeed!  Your mistakes are forgiven.

> Ampler is my poor translation of "m�s amplio". What do you think of
> writing "wider" instead?

"Wider" works better than "ampler", but
I suggest "...to form larger systems."

- Bob