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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: For French speakers only
AFAIK Lingua Franca is, latin or spanish, but definitely not french. The
book I lerad 'Papa fume un pipe' from was called 'la plus belle langue',
where 'langue' means language.
Regards, Carel-Jan
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok)
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At 05:00 PM 3/8/2004, you wrote:
>My personal preference is that English should stay lingua franca
>of this list.
>(If anyone wonders, the irony is deliberate. Lingua franca == French)
>
>On 03/08/2004 09:53:39 AM, "Goulet, Dick" wrote:
> > Either that or they'd improve their English skills. Guess I'm going to
> have to find that Western European keyboard.
> >
> >
> > Dick Goulet
> > Senior Oracle DBA
> > Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:11 PM
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: RE: For French speakers only
> >
> >
> >
> > Doing so would somewhat limit the number and quality of replies they
> receive.
> >
> > I personally would be required to use babelfish.altatvista.com.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
> > Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> >
> >
> > 03/07/2004 06:15 AM
> > Please respond to oracle-l
> >
> >
> >
> > To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> > cc:
> > Subject: RE: For French speakers only
> >
> >
> >
> > Stephen,
> >
> > You and your countrymen are free to use French here if
> you like. Mine is VERY rusty, but the exercise would be useful.
> >
> > Dick Goulet
> > Senior Oracle DBA
> > Oracle Certified 8i DBA
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:sfaroult_at_oriole.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 6:57 AM
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: For French speakers only
> >
> >
> > All right, I am posting this in English because I find impolite to post
> > in a language that the majority doesn't understand, and all French
> > speakers on this list also speak English, but it only concerns those of
> > you who feel more comfortable in French than in English.
> > I have over the years met many good DBAs (many mediocre ones too, but
> > this is another topic) whose command on English was sufficient for
> > reading the docs but a bit 'light' to participate on this kind of list
> > as actively as they might otherwise have. I have often advertised this
> > list, but with little success amongst most French speakers. I guess that
> > many on this list have made the same observation.
> > I have just created a list named oraclefr on freelists.org (just like
> > oracle-l).
> > You subscribe to this list by sending email to
> > oraclefr-request_at_freelists.org
> > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
> > interface.
> > I don't expect the traffic to be huge, especially in the beginnings, so
> > I guess that it will be easier to subscribe to both oracle-l and
> > oraclefr than to oracle-l and the lazydba list (I dare hardly mention
> > the off-topic list). Please advertise widely, especially to people who
> > are English-shy.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stephane Faroult
> > Oriole
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