Re: TECH: Official languages of the list

Carsten Becker scripsit:

> Hehe, not bad, really! But have you never heard of the conditionel?
> Well, you're younger than me and perhaps I have had French for one or
> two years longer than you.
Ah, but Trebor is an English Canadian, and it's part of their cultural
tradition to write French badly.  (Just look at any public sign in English
Canada; the French half might just as well say "No Parleyvooing Here.")
They inherit this trait from their English ancestors, who conducted
their public business in bad French for centuries ("La utilite del chose
excusera le noisesomeness del stink.")

See also the current discussion of England on conculture.

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on having their Miranda rights read to them, just like perps in American TV
cop shows.  When it's explained to them that they are in a different country,
where those rights do not exist, they become outraged.  --Neal Stephenson