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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of der Mouse > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 10:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] netiquette argument of the month > > > Monsieur 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 [email protected] > / \ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
