Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 17:53:37 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020525175337.F84264@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> References: <p05111712b9107dce9658@[10.0.1.4]> <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <p0511171eb910959a28f6@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522050350.GA266@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523124604.Z45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <p0511170eb9127dabc846@[10.0.1.8]> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se>
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On Saturday, 25 May 2002 at 9:57:41 +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote: > * Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> [2002-05-23 13.07 +0200]: >> >> I happen to live in the commune of Ixelles, which is primarily >> French-speaking, although they are officially dual-language. >> >> This is a real pisser when you get some moron down at the police >> station that takes an attitude like "you must speak French in order >> to exist!" and refuses to acknowledge that Flemish would be an >> acceptable alternative. > > My Swedish-speaking relatives in (dual-language) Finland tell me > similar things. It seems legislation isn't enough when people just > don't want to admit that the other language is an alternative. > > Do you think the "weaker" language in such situations will exist in, > say 50 years? Definitely. Not too many European languages are dying out any more. Some are coming back. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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