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From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Why is France systematically excluded?
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:58:46 GMT
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In <4v040q$4u3@paris.magic.fr> yvesmorin@magic.fr (Yves Morin) writes:

>In article <danpop.840022928@news.cern.ch>, Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) says:
>>
>>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.
>>
>FRANCAIS,FRANCAISES !
>
>Oyez, oyez, bonnes gens !
>
>De braves Anglo-Saxons daignent attirer notre attention sur le sort de 
>nos minorites linguistiques.
>Quand je pense au courage et a l'abnegation avec lesquels ces braves gens
>ont portes les droits des minorites a des peuplades barbares telles 
>qu'Irlandais,Amerindiens, Maoris ou Aborigenes d'Australie, mon coeur saigne.
>Et quand je songe a l'ingratitude des Tasmaniens qui ont eu le mauvais gout
>de tous mourir avant que nos chers amis Australiens aient pu leur inculquer
>ces memes droits, j'ai honte pour eux.
>Francais, Francaises, acceptons les lecons de nos bons amis Anglo-Saxons, 
>ces si farouches defenseurs des droits des minorites.

Glad to learn that I'm an Anglo-Saxon.  Until now, I could have sworn
that I was the citizen of an eastern European country whose ethnic 
origins are still a subject of controversy amongst historians :-)

>>Dan Pop
>>CERN, CN Division
>>Email: Dan.Pop@cern.ch 
>>Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
>
>Switzerland, c'est de l'allemand ?

I'll leave the answer to this question to a Swiss :-)

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