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 Lines: 22 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". -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)