-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> I've only seen it regarding French Canadian words and English Canadian
 MK> portrayal on Canadian media.  Mind you I don't get out much anymore.

I've seen it here and there. :)

 TL> Even down here, it's been a slow, creeping process.

 MK> Australia?  I don't see your name or Freeway BBS in the nodelist so I
 MK> am guessing by the nodenumber the BBS is displaying that it is indeed
 MK> in Australia, mainly because of the url displayed in the Origin line.

The board has only been in Fidonet for a week (as of tomorrow!), so perhaps
your nodelist is not quite up to date?  Or the update hasn't propagated? :)

 MK> Also note that you are using offline software and am wondering what
 MK> editor you are using.
 MK>  It honours the utf-8 characters I am creating in your quotes so I am
 MK> guessing it isn't FTN compliant given FTN corruption in this matter.

I'm using Notepad on Windows, which is far more likely to be UTF-8 compliant
than Fido compliant. :)

 TL> This influence is European

 MK> Ah!  Here it is Canadian albiet French Canadian which uses European
 MK> characters.
 MK>  Same with English Canadian except that as I have pointed out in an
 MK> earlier message it isn't restricted to the usual English characters (eg
 MK> the Queen's English).  Beats me what is happening down under with
 MK> respect to English other than the words and phrases unique to Australia
 MK> I have heard and seen over the years.  All of the written ones have
 MK> used regular English characters.  I have yet to see otherwise coming
 MK> from that direction.

We have multiple influences here, both indigenous and the rest of the world. :)
... Is truth not truth for all? Natira, stardate 5476.4.
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