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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Re^2: postings in the French language
Summary: Yup. Uh huh. Fer sher.
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Date: 27 Sep 89 23:28:59 GMT
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The pattern emerges! People who say `OK, post in French if you wish' tend
to be from Ontario and Quebec. People who say `What's this garbage? Where's
my kill file?' tend to be from Western Canada.

I don't care either way; by posting in the closest we have to a universal
language (sorry, Esperanto enthusiasts), I can exchange ideas with the widest
possible audience. I'm moderately bilingual, myself. Not because Canada's a
bilingual country, but because people who only speak one language don't really
understand it. You must study a second (or third or...) language to understand
your own.

...laura