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From: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.francais
Subject: Re: les quebecois sont plus gentils?
Message-ID: <1903@pembina.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 00:35:34 GMT
References: <1988Dec13.133220.28851@lsuc.uucp>
Reply-To: cdshaw@pembina.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
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Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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In article x dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) writes:
>(French-speaking secretaries) always seem to use longer and more
>flowing sentences than the sort of "Sorry he's not in
>cnitakeamessage?" that one gets in Toronto.  

Mostly I suspect that it's part of the French-speaking culture in general
to be polite in greeting, and partly that you're comparing to English speakers
in Toronto.

>David Sherman


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