How so?
(you are proving how quick and easy English is to chat with...Can't communicate this quick in French.
(you are proving how quick and easy English is to chat with...Can't communicate this quick in French.
French Language On Packaging
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Jay/IAmCanadian
I think someone explained it to me about electronic communication in English once but I can't find a backup to cite for my information so it amounts to "hearsay"....
Would Marconi's invention be the precursor to long range communications? Not certain.
It has something to do with the original inventors of sea/air communications - which were apparently accomplished in English as their first speakers. It has become traditional from that point on regardless of who makes the devices now or the craft sea/air.
I think someone explained it to me about electronic communication in English once but I can't find a backup to cite for my information so it amounts to "hearsay"....
Would Marconi's invention be the precursor to long range communications? Not certain.
It has something to do with the original inventors of sea/air communications - which were apparently accomplished in English as their first speakers. It has become traditional from that point on regardless of who makes the devices now or the craft sea/air.
You are wrong. I speak four languages and english was not the first one I learned.
Its a much easier language to learn and master.
Its a much easier language to learn and master.
unclepercy said:
I don't like foreign languages either; that's why I like French and English on the packages.
Incidentally, it's not a nice marketing gesture; in Canada, all consumer goods must be labelled in both French and English.
RE: French Language On Pa
I like French language on packaging. How else would I have exposure to such wonderful words like: PAMPLEMOUSSE!!
That's, like, my favourite word ever!
I like French language on packaging. How else would I have exposure to such wonderful words like: PAMPLEMOUSSE!!
That's, like, my favourite word ever!
iamcanadian said:
Nice theory, sorry but you're wrong.
It's English because the majority of the people setting the rules, and driving international flying, are English speaking.
I find this to be correct from actual practice and experience. What criteria are you applying other than faith?
People generally don't realize that English is my second language from reading what I write.
Most people highly educated in the French language can tell what school grade others reach based on the usage.
So my "theory" is correct unless you have a better one that some conspiracy theory involving hundreds of millions of people all over the world who all got together and conspired to advance English over French to put down french people. Your theory is far fetched but this is apparently what Quebec and French Canadians have been using to justify apartheid in this country.
People generally don't realize that English is my second language from reading what I write.
Most people highly educated in the French language can tell what school grade others reach based on the usage.
So my "theory" is correct unless you have a better one that some conspiracy theory involving hundreds of millions of people all over the world who all got together and conspired to advance English over French to put down french people. Your theory is far fetched but this is apparently what Quebec and French Canadians have been using to justify apartheid in this country.
Re: RE: French Language On Packaging
I don't think it was a conspiracy, it was simply a decision made by the ICAO. So who cares?
iamcanadian said:
I don't think it was a conspiracy, it was simply a decision made by the ICAO. So who cares?
French is an inferior language to English for commerce and for efficiency of any form of communication.
People don't need romance and frivousness when dealing with communicating over specific points or making business transactions.
Seducing women is no longer an important activity and people can be more on point without the romancing that the French Language has any advantages. Personally I find Spanish a lot sexier than French because it is similar, but not as arrogant sounding.
People don't need romance and frivousness when dealing with communicating over specific points or making business transactions.
Seducing women is no longer an important activity and people can be more on point without the romancing that the French Language has any advantages. Personally I find Spanish a lot sexier than French because it is similar, but not as arrogant sounding.
IAmCanadian
Spanish costs too much - in time and paper - and electronic space.
It takes twice as long for a sentence in Spanish either to be written or spoken. People just don't have time for the complexities of it.
Besides it is not that pleasant to listen to - and one has to learn to speak it with a dysfunctional tongue or lisp.
I would not compare Spanish with French ever.
Spanish costs too much - in time and paper - and electronic space.
It takes twice as long for a sentence in Spanish either to be written or spoken. People just don't have time for the complexities of it.
Besides it is not that pleasant to listen to - and one has to learn to speak it with a dysfunctional tongue or lisp.
I would not compare Spanish with French ever.
You are entittled to your opinion, but I personally find girls speaking Spanish way more sexy than French which tends to turn me off because it sounds snobish and arrogant to me.
But that's just me which and may have something to do with my personal experience dealing with certain French Canadians in my life.
But that's just me which and may have something to do with my personal experience dealing with certain French Canadians in my life.
Wednesday's Child said:
Spanish is such a beautiful language, very alive and much more malleable then French. Meaning can be expressed very economically. And the swearing?? Poeticly crude to the extreme. It is my favourite lanquage, and so easy to learn.
As to French on packaging, just put at least one box English side facing out on store shelves for the linquisticly disabled. What I like is that if the instructions are destroyed on one side, just flip the box over.
IAmCanada/PoisonPete
Thanks for your responses - and you are both very loyal to the Spanish language.
We all have our own personal likes and dislikes, and perhaps I favor more formality in speech - not because I think it is superior, but because I wish to preserve it. I am speaking of the English language right now.
I would not like any language which is used to demonstrate some kind of social status - that would not sit well with me. That's old and ugly and reeks of "royal" silliness and insecure snobbery.
English is morphing into a bastard puppy yet again of many tongues...
Thanks for your responses - and you are both very loyal to the Spanish language.
We all have our own personal likes and dislikes, and perhaps I favor more formality in speech - not because I think it is superior, but because I wish to preserve it. I am speaking of the English language right now.
I would not like any language which is used to demonstrate some kind of social status - that would not sit well with me. That's old and ugly and reeks of "royal" silliness and insecure snobbery.
English is morphing into a bastard puppy yet again of many tongues...
Wednesday's Child said:
Which is as it should be as we strive for universal understanding, harmony and peace.
Nothing like everyone understanding everyone else to stop hate and hostility.
This is what I love about the English language above all others. It's simplicity and adaptability and ever changing character not fixated on stringent rules that are not adaptable.
This is the primary reason in my opinion that the English language "North American Version" that dominates because it is less discriminating and less structured and therefore more adaptable.
One of the reasons for extinction is inability to adapt.
The French language and the various efforts to preserve its purety, rather than allow it to adapt is what causes its extinction.
They kill their own language and then want everyone else to pay to try resurecting it.
The English had a pure language way back when, but North America took it and adapted it and changed it to suit our needs. Had the English of their day made the same efforts to maintain an Arian language and French allowed to adapt then the tables could have been turned. It's no one's fault but their own for wanting to feel superior with an Arian mentality.
The French language and the various efforts to preserve its purety, rather than allow it to adapt is what causes its extinction.
They kill their own language and then want everyone else to pay to try resurecting it.
The English had a pure language way back when, but North America took it and adapted it and changed it to suit our needs. Had the English of their day made the same efforts to maintain an Arian language and French allowed to adapt then the tables could have been turned. It's no one's fault but their own for wanting to feel superior with an Arian mentality.
Re: RE: French Language On Packaging
For two reasons; first, the typical Republican isn't capable of handling two languages. Second, because Halliburton hasn't figured out how to make money from it.
Knoss said:
For two reasons; first, the typical Republican isn't capable of handling two languages. Second, because Halliburton hasn't figured out how to make money from it.