sorry
I meant in the workplace, of course that would be absurd if the provincial gov't
mandated your voicemail message at home to be bi-lingual but you know it
wouldn't suprise me if they changed the law accordingly. Wasn't there an
incident a few years ago where a guy hung a sign outside of his house and he was
fined a couple grand, not because it wasn't bi-lingual but because the French
wasn't big enough? There's some 80/20 proportion that you have to follow.
-----Original Message-----Hi Colin,
From: Marcel Eric Loiselle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] change languages from an IVR
We don't read the same law books :-)
Federal goverment mandates governement office, public service, court to be billingual.
Thats Quebec provincial governement that force cie to use French or billinguism in some area:
-Language use in working place (must be French)
-Internal used sofware and documentation (must in French if a French version exist)
-School insription (If you parent are French you must study in French)
-Price and sign information (billinguism allowed under condition)
-...
Someting it sucks.
But I never saw anything forcing you to translate you phone system (except screaming French customer).
My 2 cents
On 2/7/06, Colin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:unfortunately the federal government in Canada mandates this and in Quebec
if you don't do it, you can be charged with a criminal offense.
French Canada farts in your general direction.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] change languages from an IVR
I've come across this in my dealings with my customers in Toronto. As an
Englishman I find it most infuriating. French is after all, the most
hated language in the world from an Englishmans perspective ;-}
Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com
Derek Whitten wrote:
> Colin Anderson wrote:
>
>>>But, AFAIK, when they get to voicemail, the greeting is not based on
>>>the language setting, so you have to record it in those 3 languages,
>>>which makes a pretty long greeting
>>
>>
>>This is common in Canada which has 2 official languages. The convention
here
>>is to intersperse the secondary language with the primary language so a
non
>>native English speaker can follow what is going on:
>>
>>"Hi, no one can take your call right now / Bonjour, personne ne peuvent
>>prendre votre appel en ce moment / Please leave a message and I will
return
>>your call as soon as possible / Veuillez laisser un message et je
renverrai
>>votre appel aussitôt que possible"
>>
>>3 might be a stretch though.
>>
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> maybe break the languages into smaller pieces?
>
> for french, press 1... for english, press 2...
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