Xref: utzoo can.general:1789 can.politics:2801 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!clarke Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) Subject: Re^2: postings in the French language Message-ID: <1989Sep27.172847.15558@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Sep26.132533.12660@utzoo.uucp> <310@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 21:28:47 GMT sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes: >In article <1989Sep26.132533.12660@utzoo.uucp> martin@utzoo.uucp (Martin Hofmann) writes: >Anyone out there know how I can configure rn to automatically skip articles >with french in them :-) That would be tough, considering that there's a pretty good chance that any English paragraph will contain a word that is identical to and perhaps stolen from a French word. (In that last paragraph, I see only one such word: "chance." But I think I tend to use shorter words than most English writers. For example, in this paragraph, I see no such words -- even "example" is spelled differently from its French equivalent. Oops -- what about "equivalent"?) Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 (416) 978-4058 clarke@csri.toronto.edu or clarke@csri.utoronto.ca or ...!{uunet, pyramid, watmath, ubc-cs}!utai!utcsri!clarke