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From: doc@dgp.toronto.edu (Blaine Price)
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <1989Sep27.020112.15084@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Summary: large minority DO understand French
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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>
Date: 27 Sep 89 06:01:13 GMT

In article <22345@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
| If you write in French, the result will simply be that the large majority
| of the readers here won't read your posting, or in many cases *can't* read.

I would disagree (not that this topic won't be beaten to death anyway...).
I think that the vast majority of the people on the net have a high school
education and one would assume that those subscribing to can.* are likely
Canadian and encountered the French language to some extent in school.  I
had a lousy High School education in French and I can still make sense of
the French postings (although I couldn't respond in grammatically correct
French if my life depended on it).
-- 
Blaine Price  (416) 978-6619, fax: 4765         doc@dgp.utoronto.{ca,bitnet}
Dynamic Graphics Project, Dept. of Computer Sci.         doc@dgp.toronto.edu
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