Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!uqv-mts!Steve_Wart From: userRED3@ualtamts.BITNET (Steve Wart) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: postings in the French language Message-ID: <2491@ualtamts.BITNET> Date: 27 Sep 89 14:55:00 GMT References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Sep26.132533.12660@utzoo.uucp> <22345@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep27.020112.15084@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Alberta (MTS) Lines: 21 In article <1989Sep27.020112.15084@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, doc@dgp.toronto.edu (Blaine Price) writes: >In article <22345@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >| If you write in French, the result will simply be that the large majority >| of the readers here won't read your posting, or in many cases *can't* read. > >I think that the vast majority of the people on the net have a high school >education and one would assume that those subscribing to can.* are likely >Canadian and encountered the French language to some extent in school. I >had a lousy High School education in French and I can still make sense of >the French postings (although I couldn't respond in grammatically correct >French if my life depended on it). >-- >Blaine Price (416) 978-6619, fax: 4765 doc@dgp.utoronto.{ca,bitnet} My high school French isn't good enough to follow these postings with any reasonable degree of accuracy, and I'm sure that this is probably the norm for people reading this group. I for one would appreciate it if people were to post translations with their followups. Understanding the argument is more important than being impressed by your bilingualism. -- Steve