[Wikipedia-l] Re: French

[Ray Saintonge]

Toby Bartels wrote:

>Anthere wrote in part:
>
>>Aprés un "-" ou tiret, les régles typographiques de
>>langue française indiquent que la minuscule est de
>>régle
>>
>>Par contre, aprés un numéro ou une lettre de
>>classification, majuscule:
>>
>You have specific *rules* for this sort of thing?
>So precise that it goes one way in one place and another in the other?
>Your Academy is insane!!!
>
*Some* French have a passion for language stylistics that is 
incomprehensible to the anglophone community.  It is a far stronger 
influence in French poetry than in English where we tend to become 
obsessed with the requirement that poetry should mean something.  French 
school teachers also have a passion for the "dictée" long after the need 
for spelling tests has run its course.

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