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From: schuck@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Mary Margaret Schuck)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Keywords: appropriate, language, subsequent
Message-ID: <2540@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 26 Sep 89 13:18:28 GMT
References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: schuck@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Mary Margaret Schuck)
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In article <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> J G Miller  writes:
>In article <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP>, leonard@pivele.iro.umontreal.ca (Nicolas Leonard) writes:
>> Oh, jusqu'ici ca va...
>[and subsequent postings in the French language]
>
>Is not the group can.francais more appropriate for these postings,
>after all this is not can.politique?
>

This is just one of several such postings today.  Have I missed
something or is French not still one of our official languages
in Canada?  (Or have these groups been renamed anglophone.general 
and anglophone.politics?)

I will be the first to admit that I don't find it very easy to
follow the French postings, but isn't that half the point of
the debate?  If we deny francophones the right to post in
French on a mostly English net, then defending the rights
of the English-speaking minority in Quebec starts to look
like just self-serving hypocrisy.

(Just type slowly, please...:-))

	Mary Margaret.
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