From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 25 1:24:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF32337B409 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 01:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 09EA1812EA; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:53:37 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 17:53:37 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Martin Karlsson , Brad Knowles , Rahul Siddharthan , Terry Lambert , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020525175337.F84264@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <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> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 25 May 2002 at 9:57:41 +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote: > * Brad Knowles [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