Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!zap!fortin
From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <1154@zap.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 10:18:05 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> <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu>
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In article <29462@watmath.waterloo.edu> kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) writes:
>  Are you trying to tell me that 3 years of public school, [...]
>is going to enable me to EASILY [...] read Quebecois-french (the schools 
>tend to teach a very clinical french)

I think that you will find that written French is as ``clinical'' in
Quebec as anywhere else in the world.  Written French will almost
always look like this:

	"Je pense que vos arguments sont bons, mais malheureusement
	 ils sont base's sur des assertions qui s'ave`rent inexactes."

but never like this:

	"Aille!  Ch'te dis mon chum, ch'pense que c,a pas d'bon
	 sens pan toute c'que tu dis la, tse' j'veux dire!"

And by the way, if there is a French posting that you're having trouble
with, don't hesitate to drop me a note, I'll be happy to help!
-- 
 Denis Fortin,                            | fortin@zap.uucp
 CAE Electronics Ltd                      | uunet!philmtl!zap!fortin
 The opinions expressed above are my own. | fortin%zap@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu