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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <22345@looking.on.ca>
Date: 26 Sep 89 23:20:19 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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You can write in any language you want.  Mind you, if you don't write
in English, the default language of this net, it would be polite to
put "Language: French" on the header or somesuch.  But that's not too
important.

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.
It's up to you, but posting in such a way to deliberately limit your audience
seems unwise.  I can understand most of the French postings myself, but not
well, and sometimes not well enough to enter the discussion for fear that I
have misinterpreted what I have read.

In fact, since nobody who doesn't read English would be reading this group,
one can only assume that posting en Francais is done to make a point.

Canada has two official languages, but if somebody came to you and asked
directions in English, to respond in French (when you know English) would
be rude.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473