Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!zap!fortin From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: postings in the French language Message-ID: <1154@zap.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 10:18:05 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> <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) Organization: (none), Montreal QC, Canada Lines: 23 In article <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu> kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) writes: > Are you trying to tell me that 3 years of public school, [...] >is going to enable me to EASILY [...] read Quebecois-french (the schools >tend to teach a very clinical french) I think that you will find that written French is as ``clinical'' in Quebec as anywhere else in the world. Written French will almost always look like this: "Je pense que vos arguments sont bons, mais malheureusement ils sont base's sur des assertions qui s'ave`rent inexactes." but never like this: "Aille! Ch'te dis mon chum, ch'pense que c,a pas d'bon sens pan toute c'que tu dis la, tse' j'veux dire!" And by the way, if there is a French posting that you're having trouble with, don't hesitate to drop me a note, I'll be happy to help! -- Denis Fortin, | fortin@zap.uucp CAE Electronics Ltd | uunet!philmtl!zap!fortin The opinions expressed above are my own. | fortin%zap@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu