Xref: utzoo can.general:1815 can.politics:2819 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!tom From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics Subject: Re: postings in the French language Message-ID: <3305@watale.waterloo.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 15:17:26 GMT References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> <25215DA9.12769@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3301@watale.waterloo.edu> <555@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> Sender: daemon@watale.waterloo.edu Distribution: can Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 22 Mike Bolotskiwrites: > Tom Haapanen writes: > >Toivottavasti voimme sitten keskustella Kanadan suomalaisen vahemmiston > >voimaantulon jalkeen. Kaikki suomea high schoolissa ja/tai yliopistossa > >opiskelleet ... > > Finnish is not offered in most Canadian high schools. At least not in B.C. It's true that Finnish is not offered in most Canadian high schools, and French is. However, the point I was attempting to make was that posting in French excludes a large portion of the can.general audience. I did take French for four years, but do not feel competent enough to rebut a French posting. Further, I think a posting originally in French is OK, but I think it is inconsiderate to take an English thread and turn that into French, thereby excluding some of the people already taking part in the discussion. \tom haapanen "now, you didn't really expect tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu my views to have anything to do watmims research group with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo "I don't even know what street Canada is on" -- Al Capone