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From: jbergeron@watvlsi.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new can. newsgroup
Message-ID: <3516@watvlsi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 09:00:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 09:00:02 1987
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Reply-To: jbergeron@watvlsi.UUCP (Janick Bergeron)
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In article <4977@utcsri.UUCP> clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) writes:
>Nyet, as we say in English.  I disagree, because (at least in the English
>sector) too many potential respondents would be cut out.  Lots of us read
>French well enough to struggle through an article but don't write it even
>well enough to make embarrassing mistakes.  And -- eager though we may be
>to improve our second language -- the real purpose of this network is
>communication, not language learning.

That's the very reason why I proposed can.francais.
I could not follow-up to every discussion simply because I
feared misinterpretation in English.

And I bet discussion will be brought back to English after a few
postings.

And those who could not read the French portion of a discussion
might miss some good points.

For an all Canadian USENET,

Janick Bergeron