Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <1@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 06:32:43 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>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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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 would disagree (not that this topic won't be beaten to death anyway...).
}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).

I took French in high school *many* years ago. The closest I've come to
encountering it since then is the occasional French film with sub-titles.
I most certainly can't read french. 

Feel free to post in french. But you're probably wasting net.bandwidth if
you don't limit the distribution to Quebec. Personally I just hit "n".

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