Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!doc Newsgroups: can.general From: doc@dgp.toronto.edu (Blaine Price) Subject: Re: postings in the French language Message-ID: <1989Sep27.172943.15615@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Followup-To: can.general Summary: Modern High School French Education can't be that bad Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI 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> Date: 27 Sep 89 21:29:43 GMT 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, mostly ORAL | french education while conjugating a few simplistic verbs is going to enable | me to EASILY/QUICKLY/I_READ_A_LOT_OF_NEWS_AND_HAVE_NO_SPARE_TIME_TO_WASTE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this is a contradiction | read Quebecois-french (the schools tend to teach a very clinical french) | more than 18 years LATER? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I'm sorry that you had such a poor education, but I think that things might have improved in the last two decades. The fact remains that the country is officially bilingual and if you choose to know nothing about one of the official languages then you will be missing something--which is entirely your choice. -- Blaine Price (416) 978-6619, fax: 4765 doc@dgp.utoronto.{ca,bitnet} Dynamic Graphics Project, Dept. of Computer Sci. doc@dgp.toronto.edu Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 ...!uunet!dgp.toronto.edu!doc "Who do I work FOR? I don't work FOR anyone! I'm just having fun."-The Doctor