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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <23611@looking.on.ca>
Date: 28 Sep 89 17:28:26 GMT
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But you do take a risk that the person you're replying to won't understand,
or understand fully.  You responded to a posting of mine in French.  I read
the reply, and understood most of it, but did not feel confident enough
to reply in either language.   After all, I saw inconsistencies in your
posting, but where they errors in your logic, or errors in my French?  Not
having the energy to go home and get my Anglais-French dictionary, I didn't
reply.

Unfortunately, if I did make an error, people would assume it was my brain
that was at fault, not my French...

So maybe it's a good way to shut people up...   :-)
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473