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From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new can. newsgroup
Message-ID: <4986@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 09:38:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4986
Posted: Thu Jun 25 09:38:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 02:52:03 EDT
References: <8706230019.AA03446@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <3516@watvlsi.UUCP> jbergeron@watvlsi.UUCP (Janick Bergeron) writes:
>In article <4977@utcsri.UUCP> clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) writes:
>>Nyet....  [and more stuff by me]

>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.

Well, just for example:  Couldn't you have followed up here in French instead of
English?  If you prefer French, use it!  and let me sweat through a dictionary
if I have to.

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

It sure will if everybody thinks English is the default language.  One of the
reasons for having this country is that there are *two* standard languages, and
you're supposed to be able to use either at will.  You can't, yet, but if you
act as if you could then we advance a little bit.

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

They'd miss them for sure if there were a separate can.francais!  (By your rules
for inserting accents, shouldn't that be "can.franc/ais"  :-?  )

>For an all Canadian USENET,

Da!
-- 

Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
              (416) 978-4058
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