Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!aries5!giguere From: giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: French programming languages Message-ID: <422@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Aug 89 16:50:15 GMT References: <89Aug3.145600edt.10404@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <2587@gandalf.UUCP> Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu Reply-To: giguere@aries5.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) Distribution: can Organization: Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 38 In article <2587@gandalf.UUCP> edlee@gandalf.UUCP (Ed Lee) writes: > If you still >want some complaints, I do have one. Arret does not exist if French. I'm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sure it does. Look it up in any French-language dictionary. >told that France uses STOP for stop-signs so why is Quebec different. I find >that Quebec like to have their trivial differences with .... everyone!! Oh, just because the French do it, the Quebecois must do it. That's silly. I don't think anyone here on the net claims that Canadian English == American English or Canadian English == British English so why should Canadian French == French French??? Answer: it doesn't!!! The French spoken in Quebec is one of several different kinds of French spoken within Canada and is separate from that spoken in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. Not only is the language different, the culture that surrounds it is different. If the French choose to use STOP (a valid word... French and English steal a lot of words from each other) and the Quebecois ARRET, what's the problem? Vive la difference! (This discussion is almost as silly as the one where people used Belgium as an example of a peaceful bilingual country.) Eric Giguere 268 Phillip St #CL-46 For the curious: it's French ("jee-gair") Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6G9 Bitnet : GIGUERE at WATCSG (519) 746-6565 Internet: giguere@aries5.UWaterloo.ca "Nothing but urges from HELL!!"