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Subject: To Dave Harris
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 19:42:17 EST
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Dave:

Many thanks for your well made points and corrections of my posting on
whatever it is that those 'phones' speak up in our next state.

It was very interesting to read.  My friends from up there do like their
children being taught "francais standard" by immersion.  I still hear them
say the francophones, or whatever, don't!  Any word on that?  I mean if they
make "more fun of 'francais standard' than the French do of them, then where
does that leave them - the 'phones' I mean?  You didn't address that.

Gee, Canada.  I see all those adds on the telly saying come on up.  There's
so much room up there.  And resources.  Wouldn't you guys like to be our next
state??  Aren't you guys goin' to the right like us down here?  Why it would
be a marriage made in heaven.  

Anyway, I still say the 'francophones' have done it to themselves and cut off
their noses with insisting on using 'French' as a official language.  By the
way, there are a lot of 'Frenchies' down here - we imported them to work in
the mills a while back.  Some of them are my friends.  Really.  They complain
of an image as 'niggers of the north' sometimes.  I have some . . . now I don't
know what to call them . . . - French Canadian decendant American, how's that,
friends who won't let their children speak that 'phone' stuff because they
say it is ignorant.  This creates friction between the grandparents and them,
of course, but they want their children to speak English or 'standard' French.

Waterloo.  Quite a few of you on the net.  Where do you go after you finish
there - Elba??  Ha Ha.  It's a joke, see.

I also know some people from up there who would LIKE to see themselves become
part of the good ole US of A.!!  That's just so you don't think I'm a crank
of one.  I understand the provences are not getting along so well with the
central gov.,eh?  The provinces too.

Well, regards,

Ken Arndt