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From: durham@handel.mpr.ca (Paul Durham)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Summary: So to speak
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Date: 1 Oct 89 18:54:18 GMT
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In article <701@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca> TMCLELLA@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca writes:
> 
>I dare you to speak to a civil servant in Russian, Japanese, Ukrainian, or
>Italian.  See how far you get.
> 
Well, if I were in Russia, Japan, the Ukraine, or Italy respectively, thisd
would probably get me pretty far ( although there might well be 
a few unilingual Russians in civil service jobs in the Ukraine ).

Civil servants are employees of the state and are supposed to work in the
official language of the state. If you want service in one of the above
languages, you can lobby to get it adopted as the third official language 
of the country, or your province. Or, move a to country where it is already
an official language.


P. Durham