On 3/24/2002 3:37 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
> 
>>Its not the system is bad. Its just different.
>>
> Some things are objectively bad. "I don't have no car" (for "I have no 
> car") is just logically wrong. And "Your out of luck" instead of "You're 
> out of luck" is, by the definition of the language, wrong. I admit that 
> the latter error is easy to make. But the former is, I think, a genuine 
> American symptom.
> 
>>French and French Canadians speak French. But it may not be the same french.
>>
> Are you just guessing or do you know that this is the case? French is a 
> very tightly and centrally controlled language. (And I shows, in a 
> positive way.)

I know it to be the case.  There are many differences between the French 
spoken in France and that spoken in Canada.

-- 
Gord McFee
I'll write no line before its time


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