RE: Canadian English (WAS: Writing for a particular audience)

Subject: RE: Canadian English (WAS: Writing for a particular audience)
From: Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:55:30 -0400


Keith Cronin pointed out:
>
> Based on that, shouldn't you guys come up with a more
> phonetically correct
> way to spell "out" and "about"?
>

Sorry, but the language police only operate in Quebec, and if pronunciation
were an offence, they would be too swamped to operate at all. Rural Quebec
accents can be a tremendous challenge for urban francophones, nevermind
muddling anglophones.

(And for the non-Canucks out there, yes, Quebec really does have language
police to enforce the language laws.)

Cheers ... Kim


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