Newsgroups: de.etc.sprache.deutsch,nl.taal,sci.lang,soc.culture.french,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.belgium,soc.culture.netherlands,soc.culture.swiss,soc.culture.quebec,alt.letzebuerger,fr.misc.droit,talk.politics.european-union,fr.soc.divers
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!CERN.ch!news.cern.ch!danpop
From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Why is France systematically excluded?
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Message-ID: <danpop.840022928@news.cern.ch>
Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #18 (NOV)
References: <3210EE7F.2B3F@innet.be> <4urvvn$3cpe@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:42:08 GMT
Lines: 39

In <4urvvn$3cpe@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de> schwartz@alf.biochem.mpg.de (Jean-Marc Schwartz) writes:

>In article <3210EE7F.2B3F@innet.be>, Roger Thijs (rthijs@innet.be) 
>says...
>>
>>Why is the French Republic systematically excluded
>>from international linguistic treaties?
>>(...)
>>1. The general declaration about the reform of the spelling
>>of the German language was signed in Vienna on
>>July 1, 1996 for the governments of:
>>(...)
>>Wouldn't it have been nice the German speaking world
>>would have had some thought about Alsace-Lorraine,
>>and eventually would have allowed France/
>>the Regional Government of Alsace-Lorraine to participate?
>
>Ce n'est pas l'allemand qui est parl en Alsace-Lorraine, mais un
>ou des dialectes proches de l'allemand ; leur orthographe n'est
>pas prcisment dfinie, et il y a autant d'orthographes possibles
>que de personnes crivant ces langues.

Exactly the same situation as in most countries from the list.

>Autant dire que la rforme
>orthographique allemande nous laisse aussi indiffrents que le statut
>du signe dur russe...

And this is precisely the difference between France and countries like
Belgium, Italy, Romania or Hungary, which weren't left indifferent by the
German spelling reform, even if some of them have considerably smaller
German speaking minorities.

Dan
--
Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: Dan.Pop@cern.ch 
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
