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To: Tommaso who wrote (77465)	9/26/2001 12:53:39 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116895

Well, that syndrome of not replying to what they perceive as bad fr. in fr. is fairly common throughout PQ as well as Ontario. There are a number of reasons for it. It may be that they want practiquer notre anglais, it may be that they feel you wont understand the fr. they speak as it is mostly joual and patios or it may be that they really don't like anglaisphoneys. We can generally tell, though, when people are playing games though, can't we. Impatient or dismissive people are not hard to spot. At least they are being honest if not enlightened. EC<:-}

To: Tommaso who wrote (77465)	9/30/2001 10:40:55 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116895

Tommaso, You should see that they are trying to communicate most effectively under the circumsyances. Your fractured French is their native tongue and they can elicit your meaning far better than if you spoke good English to their bad ears. They then respond to you in fractured English and your excellence in that language allows you to elicit their meaning far better than if they spoke fast French to you. Lets face it fast French is incomprehemsible to you and they knew it by your French utterances. So they were pragmatically getting to the best way to communicate...each hears in the tongue they best understand. Bill