[FFmpeg-devel] Bounties?

[Nico Sabbi]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

>On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:16:20PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
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>>>"Panagiotakis" is the diminutive of my name "Panagiotis". But, as it is
>>>quite lengthy -especially for kids who are often supposed to be using
>>>it-, it is quite common to use "Takis" as a shorthand for it.
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>>it's the first time I see a diminutive longer than the original name :)
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>Huh?  In Italian it's Nico --> Nicolino (Nicoleto?)
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argh, absolutely ridicolous :) My name can't be shortened in any way

> IIRC, in Spanish it's
>Diego --> Dieguito.
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>Diego
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according to dictionary I'm reading  in english "diminutive" is used to 
indicate both a
short-form of the original name and a variant used to fondle someone 
("vezzeggiativo"
in italian, as for "Dieguito").