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From: jdd@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new can. newsgroup
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 12:10:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 12:10:36 1987
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Reply-To: jdd@utcsri.UUCP (John D. DiMarco)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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	I think a good rule of thumb for can.general postings is simply 
to reply to a posting in the language of the original posting, where at all
possible. That would allow french discussions to remain french and English
discussions to remain english. In this way, the spirit of an originating
article can best be preserved. 

	I do feel that there should be one notable exception to this rule -
In my (unfortunately limited) experience with french, I have found that 
some things in French just cannot be adequately expressed in English and
similarly for some things in English. There should be no problem whatsoever
with a french phrase in an English posting or an English phrase in a 
french posting.

	If an anglophone posted a french article or a francophone an 
english article, it is likely that many spelling and grammar mistakes will
be made. I think that any corrections should be confined to private mail
messages, and not posted on the net for everyone to see. Such public 
correction would scare anyone (especially me!) from posting an article
in a language he/she is unfamiliar with. 

Tell me what you think of these suggestions.
Repondez S.V.P dans le sujet de les regles.  

John
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