The return of international sub-forums?

[DJ Omnimaga]

actually we only have two active french canadians (including myself). french canadians typically won't remain interested toward calcs for long, from experience, which is why there are so few on calc forums. Most canadians who remain into calcs a lot are from Alberta and British Columbia it seems. Quebec is mostly french, except Montreal, which is 33% french, 33% english and 33% others. New Brunswick province is 20% french and 80% english and the rest of Canada is pretty much just english. In overall, I think only 10% of Canada speak french.

Calcs are quite popular in france, though. We get french people from there in IRC chans from time to time and there is a huge active french TI forum, which comes in 3rd position in the entire community in terms of activity (behind Omnimaga and Cemetech). UTI would be 4th and yAronet 68k board 5th. In France, most people use 68k calcs, though. In fact, you'll notice that most TI-89 users are from France. MaxCoderz forums used to be mostly populated by dutch people. Basically, most of the french people would be from France and Belgium and dutch people from Holland and Belgium.

[Juju]

Quebec is mostly french, except Montreal, which is 33% french, 33% english and 33% others. New Brunswick province is 20% french and 80% english and the rest of Canada is pretty much just english. In overall, I think only 10% of Canada speak french.

In fact, 75% of Quebec and 25% of Canada speak French. Montreal is half French, half english and others.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Mhmm I swear I heard in history classes that MTL was like 33% others. It has an entire chineese quarter, spanish quarter and others and in some stores, it's almost impossible to have french services

[Juju]

Possible. I know that there is quarters that speak neither French or English and it's impossible to have french services there because immigrants will learn English instead of French.

[DJ Omnimaga]

yeah. I think the issue is that english is spoken at so many places and easier to learn how to write than french (fewer stupid grammar rules) that people will prefer to learn english instead

[Zera]

(fewer stupid grammar rules)

... b-but, I love all my grammar rules. :'(

[DJ Omnimaga]

Lol

But at least english doesn't have as many exceptions of the type:

<student> teacher, why do we write this word in plural like this?
<teacher> there are no reason why, it's just like this. You just have to remember it.

than french. French is terrible for that

[mapar007]

Mmmh... I actually think the pronounciation-spelling relation is far more complicated in English than in French. (in French, when I hear a word, I can almost always immediately spell it, and vice versa, while in English, this is way harder for me.)

[DJ Omnimaga]

well, I often heard people having trouble learning to speak english than writing it and people having trouble writing french but speaking it easily. It might depend of location, though, due to accents.

[Juju]

Yeah, I could identify myself as a grammar-nazi in French, and I hate these "kikoolol" people who makes lots of stupid typos per word. There are too much of them.

(BTW, W00T 50th post )

[DJ Omnimaga]

Well personally I don't like when ppl goes too much grammar-nazi, though, I hate it since it's some form of trolling. Usually it just cause major offtopicness and debates in topics, or even scare newbies away. If they write in SMS or totally undechiperable stuff, I may tell them to rephrase in english/french, though

[mapar007]

I can't read French SMS-like style... This is why I don't frequent TI-Bank so often. Somehow, my Wernicke-center is more tolerant to bad spelling in English than in French

[Galandros]

Spanish seems the language with better spelling-pronunciation relation. It seems very consistent. But it is just I don't know very in depth Spanish.

[mapar007]

Dutch is consistent as well, in theory. The regional dialects, however, are not.
The only thing about Dutch is the irregular stress. Even native speakers have trouble with that.

[mapar007]

*bump*

Are we doing this or not? I think I can convince some people to come by, so I was wondering.