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Old April 6th 04, 11:44 PM
The Reids
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Following up to Marie Lewis

Not showing off: there is nothing particularly remarkable about speaking
French.

Millions of people do that.


this is an english language ng.
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Old April 7th 04, 12:04 AM
Kid E. Poole
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The Reids wrote:
Following up to Marie Lewis


Not showing off: there is nothing particularly remarkable about speaking
French.

Millions of people do that.



this is an english language ng.


Nonsense. This is a multi-lingual newsgroup. Use
whatever language you like. Or in your case, Marie,
feel free to make pedantic grammar corrections
followed by egregious grammatical errors in any
language you almost understand.

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Old April 7th 04, 02:23 AM
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:04:15 +0000, Kid E. Poole wrote:

The Reids wrote:
Following up to Marie Lewis


Not showing off: there is nothing particularly remarkable about speaking
French.

Millions of people do that.



this is an english language ng.


Nonsense. This is a multi-lingual newsgroup. Use
whatever language you like. Or in your case, Marie,
feel free to make pedantic grammar corrections
followed by egregious grammatical errors in any
language you almost understand.


Which newsgroup are we specifically talking about here?

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Old April 7th 04, 08:20 AM
The Reids
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Following up to Kid E. Poole

this is an english language ng.


Nonsense. This is a multi-lingual newsgroup. Use
whatever language you like. Or in your case, Marie,
feel free to make pedantic grammar corrections
followed by egregious grammatical errors in any
language you almost understand.


of course, silly me! :-)
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Walk-Photo-Wasdale-Thames- Walk-eat-drink-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
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Old April 7th 04, 09:33 AM
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"The Reids" wrote in message
...
Following up to Marie Lewis

Not showing off: there is nothing particularly remarkable about speaking
French.

Millions of people do that.


this is an english language ng.
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Is it? What about people who do not speak English? Are they barred? Who
says so?




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Old April 7th 04, 11:59 AM
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Here in rec.travel.air,
"Marie Lewis" spake unto us, saying:

Is it? What about people who do not speak English? Are they barred?
Who says so?


Most USENET newsgroups tend to have a dominant language in use among
its users.

In the case of rec.travel.air, that language tends to be English.

People are free to post in other languages here as long as it doesn't
violate the charter of the newsgroup (I suspect the character of rta,
if it exists, doesn't specifically specify English, though it could).

However, I would expect a non-English posting to receive fewer answers
here since the majority of the posters here are English-speakers, and I
suspect a minority of those are bilingual.

"Barring" someone from USENET is a fairly difficult task. :-)

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Old April 7th 04, 01:23 PM
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"Richard Steiner" wrote in message
...
Here in rec.travel.air,
"Marie Lewis" spake unto us, saying:

Is it? What about people who do not speak English? Are they barred?
Who says so?


Most USENET newsgroups tend to have a dominant language in use among
its users.

In the case of rec.travel.air, that language tends to be English.


But, this was a cross posting to, among others, rec,travel europe, where
there are often people of different nationalities.

The fact that posts "tend" to be in English does not mean that all have to
be.

ML


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Old April 13th 04, 03:10 PM
The Reids
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Following up to Marie Lewis

this is an english language ng.
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Is it? What about people who do not speak English? Are they barred? Who
says so?


If non english speakers were to post in another language, that
would be one thing.
You posted in French when you could have posted in English, your
native language.

Polite people in multi lingual environments switch to the
language that they speak that is most easily understood by the
listener. You did the opposite.....
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Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
 




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