Re: Implementing support for barbarisms correction

From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 10:33:41 EDT

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    On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 07:24:26AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    > The French language is pretty famous for having tough
    > language cops. Ordinateur is the word for computer
    > and that's it. I'm not sure if it's France or Quebec
    > who had (maybe still do) police who were actually
    > going
    > to fine you on the street if they caught you using
    > words such as "jeans" or "hamburger".

    Great, I can get off topic now. Quebec has 'language cops' (soon to
    be disbanded) but they're not really police and certainly don't patrol
    the streets. In fact, they responded to complaints about signs in
    English, which do garner fines for the owning companies.

    pat

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