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FW: netiquette argument of the month
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:14:17 -0700
OOPS, in my haste to not run afoul of Rich's rules, I replied, rather than reply to all. -----Original Message----- From: Tomas L. Byrnes Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:14 PM To: 'der Mouse' Subject: RE: [funsec] netiquette argument of the month Titles are Capitalized everywhere, and I was pretending to be a spoof government agency. I lived in France for three years, my first real job was with Alcatel in France. I'm pretty confident my French is better than yours, especially since you replied in English.
-----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of der Mouse Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 10:11 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] netiquette argument of the monthMonsieur Le Souris, Ici votre instruction de la direction de la langue Française de Québec.You would do well to learn more French before trying to pretend to competence in it. Even I know enough French to pick out various rudimentary errors in what you've written - as the first example that comes to mind, language names (such as "française" or "anglais", though the former is admittedly an adjective rather than a noun) are not uniformly initial-caps as they are in English.On a vu que vous avez engage en communications d'affaires seulement en Anglais.What makes you think so? I doubt you have seen _any_ of my communications d'affaires; the only communications of mine I have any reason to think you have seen are those on this list, which are hardly d'affaires.A taste of thine own medicine, but actually the law you are subject to, and similar to your desire to enforce your views on us.Law, yes. Were I a business communicating with the public at large, it might even be relevant. As for enforcing my views? Only to the extent that my considering, and calling, certain actions rude enforces anything.P.S. C'est tout a fait impossible de bien enregistrer les accents etcetera sans HTML.Which actually is not true, unless your "etcetera" covers a good deal more than the context implies; French works just fine with 8859-1, and indeed I notice you (correctly) marked your text as being iso-8859-1 text/plain. No HTML required.P.P.S. L'Allemand (Der Mouse) n'est JAMAIS OK chez les Francophones.You apparently don't know German either. "Mouse" auf Deutsch is "Maus", not "Mouse", and it's feminine and thus takes "die" rather than "der" or "das". "der Mouse" (not "Der Mouse") is not German and is not intended to be German; I think the "der" was lifted from German before I knew enough German to know what I was doing, but that's the only part of it that has anything to do with German. The "Mouse" is straight-up English. (It also is largely a historical artifact. The only place I still use it is in from-line full-names, and I've been considering dropping it there. Not that that's terribly relevant.) Furthermore, while the law requires French to have prominence, other languages, such as German or even English, are indeed OK when accompanied by sufficiently prominent French. And, in practice, the law is differentially enforced against English - signs in Portugese only, or Ukranian only, or Greek only (to pick three examples I've seen) are substantially more common than English only (which latter border on nonexistent). If I frequented the proper neighbourhoods, I would expect German to be on that list too. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents-montreal org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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