Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!philmtl!ray
From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: soc.culture.canadian?
Message-ID: <1065@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 22 Feb 90 16:30:54 GMT
References: <7796@yunexus.UUCP> <21029@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1244@uscacsc.usc.edu> <1247@uscacsc.usc.edu>
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In referenced article, dzhang@redondo.usc.edu writes:
>I wouldn't mind if someone will use French, as long as his or her
>article is not a follow up of my articles which will be in English.

I'm sure they will appreciate that you wont mind!  Yes, we're well on our
way, the correct flavour for soc.culture.canadian is already being
established.....

[Read with sarcastic tone - Canadian readers of both solitudes should get my
point, certainly if they've been participating in can.general over the past
few months, where a boisterous argument, often patronizing like the above, at
worst bigoted, went on about the correctness of posting in French to
can.general or can.politics, and in can.francais where most French postings
are followed up by a stream of them in English]

If soc.culture.canada is going to turn into just another forum where
English speaking and French speaking Canadians can shout at each other, I
would vote a thousand times "NO", right now!
-- 
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