Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!musocs!mcgill-vision!iros1!fortin From: fortin@iros1.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: --- Can.French (Can.Francais?) --- Message-ID: <225@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:50:43 EDT Article-I.D.: Mannix.225 Posted: Wed Jul 8 12:50:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 07:29:35 EDT References: <218@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <4992@utcsri.UUCP> <221@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <5042@utcsri.UUCP> Sender: news@iros1.UUCP Reply-To: fortin@iros1.UUCP (Denis Fortin) Distribution: can Organization: Universite de Montreal Lines: 51 Keywords: French, Bilingualism, new groups Summary: A new group is officially requested In article <5042@utcsri.UUCP> flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > >>There are French net.readers and there are English net.readers... >>Since 99,9% of the net.news are in English, all readers must be able to > ^ (good thing I speak French numerals) A quick (and totally unrelated) question: Isn't that standard in metric? And if so, isn't that supposed to be the standard in Canada these days? >>understand a text written in English (I cannot imagine a person with no >>knowledge of English at all sitting down at his/her terminal for >>extended periods of time glancing at text that he/she cannot understand >>at all). > >This is the whole point. I think that those people with no knowledge >of English should be allowed access to the net. I agree! Since there are two "official languages" in Canada, I see *absolutely no problem* with French postings to can.general!!! (or any other can.group for that matter) However, I think that the issue of can.francais (or can.french, or can.joual) is an entirely different issue: the can.francais group is a separate newgroup where discussions on issues related to French in Canada take place (how people are solving the problems of accents on their computers, how easy it is to get an education in French in such and such a part of the country, etc). Therefore, creating can.francais does *not* imply that francophones who have a point to make in can.general should not post there in French, and it does *not* imply that anglophones who have a point to make about French in Canada cannot post in English in can.francais!!! So... I guess the proposal is as follows (where do you send proposals for the creation of new newsgroups in Canada???): The creation of a new "canadian" newsgroup is proposed. Named can.francais (or can.French, I have no strong feelings about that), it would serve as a forum for people who want to discuss issues related to French in Canada (or actually, French in general). As all other can.* groups, this would be a bilingual group (though somehow I guess one can expect a greater concentration of French in that group than in other can.groups). Ok... The official proposal is out. What happens now? (I guess we discuss its usefulness for a while and then someone just creates the group!) Denis Fortin, fortin@iros1.UUCP