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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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