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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
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Date: 30 Sep 89 15:17:26 GMT
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Mike Bolotski  writes:
> Tom Haapanen  writes:
> >Toivottavasti voimme sitten keskustella Kanadan suomalaisen vahemmiston
> >voimaantulon jalkeen.  Kaikki suomea high schoolissa ja/tai yliopistossa
> >opiskelleet ...
> 
> Finnish is not offered in most Canadian high schools.  At least not in B.C.

It's true that Finnish is not offered in most Canadian high schools, and
French is.  However, the point I was attempting to make was that posting in
French excludes a large portion of the can.general audience.  I did take
French for four years, but do not feel competent enough to rebut a French
posting.  Further, I think a posting originally in French is OK, but I think
it is inconsiderate to take an English thread and turn that into French,
thereby excluding some of the people already taking part in the discussion.

                                        \tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo

"I don't even know what street Canada is on"  -- Al Capone