Afficionado or Aficionado?

johann_p · Post by **johann_p** » December 29th, 2002, 6:58 am

In Spanish, this is written with only one "f". I believe in English, you can write it with one or two, I believe.
It looks *very* strange to me with two "f"s and probably to everybody who knows Spanish or German (where it is also written with only one f).

Post by **djst** » December 29th, 2002, 7:01 am

I think the word itself is strange, regardless of the spelling

johann_p · Post by **johann_p** » December 29th, 2002, 7:08 am

djst wrote:I think the word itself is strange, regardless of the spelling

I think "he may like phoenix but we are not sure" is way more strange

seb · Post by **seb** » December 29th, 2002, 10:21 am

Both exist: According to http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictiona ... fficionado , "Afficionado" is a variant of « Aficionado ».

ps: wow, David, you got a l33t user title :)

Post by **tve** » December 29th, 2002, 10:28 am

on Google, i get 257,000 results for "aficionado" and 17,900 for "afficionado".. so, both seem to be correct :]

johann_p · Post by **johann_p** » December 29th, 2002, 12:26 pm

I just wanted to mention that afficionado is a rare writing and that it looks
very wrong in the language where the word originally comes from: Spanish.
And that it looks nearly equally wrong in most other languages except English.
Forget it.

willll · Post by **willll** » December 29th, 2002, 2:31 pm

Johann_P wrote:I just wanted to mention that afficionado is a rare writing and that it looks
very wrong in the language where the word originally comes from: Spanish.
And that it looks nearly equally wrong in most other languages except English.
Forget it.

i agree. it is usually spelled with one f

Post by **djst** » December 29th, 2002, 4:17 pm

Netsabes wrote:ps: wow, David, you got a l33t user title

What's l33t?

flii · Post by **flii** » December 29th, 2002, 4:30 pm

djst wrote:What's l33t?

ah, gamers...

l33t = leet = elite = cool or very good

cdn · Post by **cdn** » December 29th, 2002, 4:35 pm

djst wrote:
Netsabes wrote:ps: wow, David, you got a l33t user title

What's l33t?

leet - elite - hacker slang, load of twaddle half the time : P

what level of posts do you have to have to get a custom moniker ?

Post by **RAF** » December 29th, 2002, 4:42 pm

You have to spend at least 4 hours a day at -21 °C on your own site dedicated to Phoenix :wink:

Post by **djst** » December 29th, 2002, 4:54 pm

RAF wrote:You have to spend at least 4 hours a day at -21 °C on your own site dedicated to Phoenix

Something like that, yes.

I didn't make that one up myself. I got it as a Christmas gift

cdn · Post by **cdn** » December 30th, 2002, 1:21 am

[sarcasm]and I haven't been doing anything for [themes.]mozdev.org*, hmm ?[/sarcasm]

compare and contrast

Before [ circa 2002/09/25 07:23:12 ] : After

http://themes.mozdev.org/themes.html : http://themes.mozdev.org/themes/1.html

http://themes.mozdev.org/skins/orbit.html : http://themes.mozdev.org/themes/orbit.html

[nb stylings may overlap, new styles apparent on old pages]

*admittedly, not at -21 degC

seb · Post by **seb** » December 30th, 2002, 4:46 am

djst wrote:
Netsabes wrote:ps: wow, David, you got a l33t user title :)

What's l33t?

As cdn said, l33t is elite.
The exact way to find it is: l33t -> 3l33t -> eleet -> elite
You should read MegaTokyo, you'll learn to speak l33t quickly :)

Post by **old Neil Parks** » January 1st, 2003, 2:42 pm

I never noticed the spelling till I happened to see a msg in another forum from someone who said that he'd rather be called a "Phoenix aficionado". It was only then that I realized that "Mozilla afficionado" was being written with two f's.

That looked odd to me, since I thought the word (being a Spanish word) should probably have one and not two. So I reached for the nearest dictionary, and found only the single-F spelling.

Afficionado or Aficionado?

Afficionado or Aficionado?

strange?

ok ok

Re: ok ok

My dictionary says one F.