In a country made up of an amalgam of all the other countries in the world, it makes sense to have a unifying language. Multiple languages divide. Have you heard the term "E Pluribus Unum"? Thanks for the crack about Americans. Clyde Sprowl -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Nutting Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [Suspected Spam] Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants People who speak three languages are trilingual. People who speak two languages are bilingual. People who speak one language are called American. Man, I love Fridays! -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deac Descoteaux Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:21 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants Well, we just hire people that speak the language that we are working with..... It does help being bilingual -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tempea, Ioan Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:16 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants Brian, the french spoken here is OK, the way it is ;o) I already kill myself to do bilingual training classes, imagine using terms à l'Académie Française. What are you guys doing in the US when you need to give speaches to anglophones and latinos, at the same time? > -----Original Message----- > From: TechNet [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:05 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants > > Never heard of brasage tendre??? I've spent hours discussing the > terminology in France and most Frenchmen north of Dole and East of > Rennes really do their nut at any other expression. La soudure, for > them, is welding and soudage didn't even exist until 1989 when le > Petit Robert reintroduced the word into the dictionary, to their > chagrin, even though it was current from 1489 to the mid-19th century > (again, for welding, not soldering). All the ISO normes use brasage > tendre, see > http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/stdsdevelopment/tc/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeStanda rdsListPage.TechnicalCommitteeStandardsList?COMMID=1714 > (you'll probably have to reconstitute this long URL over the lines) > > So, you can now educate the Québecois in le français académique :-) > > As far as I know, the other parts of France and all the rest of the > francophone countries use le soudage for the act of soldering or the > joint and la soudure for the alloy, but also for the joint. > > Brian > > Tempea, Ioan wrote: > > No flames from here, > > > > soudage works fine, never heard of brasage tendre. I think it goes > > with the fine cuisine where you pay double the price for one tenth of the food quantity. > > > > And rest assured, the french spoken here allows anybody to hook to TN. "J'vais faire checker mes brakes" replaces the tender "J'vais faire vérifier mes freins". > > > > Ioan > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: TechNet [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Cullum > >>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:00 AM > >>To: [log in to unmask] > >>Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants > >> > >> > >>>-----Original Message----- > >>>From: Brian Ellis [mailto:[log in to unmask]] A true Frenchman, > >>>especially if he were a snob, would never, ever, talk about soudure > >>>or soudage for soldering. This is left to the country hicks in > >>>Belgium, Switzerland and Québec. > >> > >>Merci Brian, pour le ROTFL (my franglais is getting worse) :) > >> > >>Boy are you gonna get flamed from les québecois! > >> > >>Craig Cullum, Engineering Technologist, AMTELCO > >>e: [log in to unmask] > >> [log in to unmask] > >>f: 608 838 8367 > >>v: 608 838 4194, or 4197, x128 > >> > >>Visit AMTELCO at www.amtelco.com > >> > >>"I couldn't wait for success . . . so I went ahead without it." > >>Jonathan Winters > >> > >>"I don't rely on inspiration. It's unreliable. I just get up in the morning > >> and I go to work." Nick Cave > >> > >>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > >>temporary safety > >>deserve neither liberty nor safety." 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