Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!kgdykes From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: postings in the French language Message-ID: <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 07:57:26 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: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) Organization: S.D.G. UofWaterloo Lines: 26 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). 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 read Quebecois-french (the schools tend to teach a very clinical french) more than 18 years LATER? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha This belongs in some sort of humour newsgroup! As Brad says, nothing wrong with posting, but don't expect them to get read by the masses out here in a hurry trying to get through the day; or to coin a phrase "You're preaching to the converted" -ken -- - Ken Dykes, Software Development Group, UofWaterloo, Canada [43.47N 80.52W] kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.1] kgdykes@waterloo.csnet kgdykes@water.bitnet watmath!kgdykes