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Are they still legally obliged to call computers ordinateurs and use Megaoctet over there?

• medlazik 13y ago
  You know most people outside your country speak a different language than yours?
  • VMG 13y ago
    People speak other languages than German?? I'm amazed!
• fab13n 13y ago
  You know just enough about Latin countries and their laws to be mislead. There are some puzzling rules and laws indeed, but there's this cultural notion that it's OK to flout inconvenient laws, rather than fighting them frontally to repel them. Among others, the laws intended to protect the French language from English (or more accurately Globish) are widely perceived as not-really-meant-to-be-enforced. I know it's stupid, but that's the way it is, and it sort-of works. And before going all French-bashing about this, go and check the anti-sodomy laws that still exist in some bible-belt US states...
• jpmatz 13y ago
  That's in Quebec, the french-speaking Canadian area, not France