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From: userRED3@ualtamts.BITNET (Steve Wart)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <2491@ualtamts.BITNET>
Date: 27 Sep 89 14:55:00 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>
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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 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).
>--
>Blaine Price  (416) 978-6619, fax: 4765         doc@dgp.utoronto.{ca,bitnet}
 
My high school French isn't good enough to follow these postings with any
reasonable degree of accuracy, and I'm sure that this is probably the norm
for people reading this group. I for one would appreciate it if people were
to post translations with their followups. Understanding the argument is
more important than being impressed by your bilingualism.
 
-- Steve