--- "Matt M." matt_mcl@sympatico.ca wrote:
way, we write "fran�ais" for the language and "Fran�ais" for the french man. These two words are absolutely not interchangeable. That's both
grammar
flaw and countrycentrism.
�a me semble que dans une liste on devrait mettre une majuscule comme �a:
- Anglais
- Fran�ais
- Espagnol
- Latin
- Esp�ranto
n'est-ce pas?
Et non !
Apr�s un "-" ou tiret, les r�gles typographiques de langue fran�aise indiquent que la minuscule est de r�gle ex Les articles seront en : - anglais; - fran�ais; - espagnol; - latin; - esp�ranto.
De m�me qu'� l'int�rieur d'un paragraphe de lignes pleines : ex "Les langues de la communaut� wikip�dienne sont : 1� l'anglais ; 2� le fran�ais; 3� le javanais"
Par contre, apr�s un num�ro ou une lettre de classification, majuscule: ex Les langues suivantes sont utilis�es 1. Anglais; 2. Polonais; 3. Allemand.
LOL. Sorry (muttering excuses, I'll try not to do it again)
Mais de toute fa�on, in English we try
not to say "the Frenchman" if referring to an indefinite person; that's sexist. We say "a French person." But I don't think you were trying to be sexist - all this to say that we should cut each other a little slack when dealing with languages not their own.
Matt (Montrealais) Montreal, Quebec
Yep. But we say canadien. pas personne canadienne.
I was not trying to be sexist *at all* (this time). Just maybe indicating it was very common that french langage was confused with french people, which would be further increased by using a french person to represent the langage.
NB : Suite � ton article sur non-sexist language, et � un commentaire de Francis, j'ai d�cid� de favoriser l'usage des tirets plut�t que des parenth�ses. D�sormais, je parle des wikip�dien-ne-s plut�t que des wikip�dien(ne)s. Francis pointed out putting females in () had a pretty heavy meaning; while joining males and females by a - had a whole different one. Makes sense. Though hardly giving us more in reality :-)
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