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<DIV><SPAN class=541301115-08022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>sorry
I meant in the workplace, of course that would be absurd if the provincial gov't
mandated your voicemail message at home to be bi-lingual but you know it
wouldn't suprise me if they changed the law accordingly. Wasn't there an
incident a few years ago where a guy hung a sign outside of his house and he was
fined a couple grand, not because it wasn't bi-lingual but because the French
wasn't big enough? There's some 80/20 proportion that you have to follow.
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Marcel Eric Loiselle
[mailto:marceleric@gmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 08, 2006
6:50 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Asterisk-Users] change languages from an
IVR<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi Colin,<BR><BR>We don't read the same law books
:-)<BR>Federal goverment mandates governement office, public service, court to
be billingual.<BR><BR>Thats Quebec provincial governement that force cie to
use French or billinguism in some area: <BR>-Language use in working place
(must be French)<BR>-Internal used sofware and documentation (must in French
if a French version exist)<BR>-School insription (If you parent are French you
must study in French)<BR>-Price and sign information (billinguism allowed
under condition) <BR>-...<BR>Someting it sucks.<BR><BR>But I never saw
anything forcing you to translate you phone system (except screaming French
customer).<BR><BR>My 2 cents<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 2/7/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Colin
Anderson</B> <<A
href="mailto:ColinA@landmarkmasterbuilder.com">ColinA@landmarkmasterbuilder.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">unfortunately
the federal government in Canada mandates this and in Quebec<BR>if you don't
do it, you can be charged with a criminal offense.<BR><BR>French Canada
farts in your general direction.<BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From:
Mark Phillips [mailto:<A
href="mailto:g7ltt@g7ltt.com">g7ltt@g7ltt.com</A>]<BR>Sent: Tuesday,
February 07, 2006 1:11 PM<BR>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion<BR>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] change languages
from an IVR <BR><BR><BR>I've come across this in my dealings with my
customers in Toronto. As an<BR>Englishman I find it most infuriating. French
is after all, the most<BR>hated language in the world from an Englishmans
perspective ;-} <BR><BR><BR>Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI<BR>Randolph, NJ<BR><A
href="http://www.g7ltt.com">http://www.g7ltt.com</A><BR><BR><BR>Derek
Whitten wrote:<BR>> Colin Anderson wrote:<BR>><BR>>>>But,
AFAIK, when they get to voicemail, the greeting is not based on
<BR>>>>the language setting, so you have to record it in those 3
languages,<BR>>>>which makes a pretty long
greeting<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>This is common in Canada which
has 2 official languages. The convention <BR>here<BR>>>is to
intersperse the secondary language with the primary language so
a<BR>non<BR>>>native English speaker can follow what is going
on:<BR>>><BR>>>"Hi, no one can take your call right now /
Bonjour, personne ne peuvent <BR>>>prendre votre appel en ce moment /
Please leave a message and I will<BR>return<BR>>>your call as soon as
possible / Veuillez laisser un message et je<BR>renverrai<BR>>>votre
appel aussitôt que possible" <BR>>><BR>>>3 might be a stretch
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</A><BR>><BR>><BR>> maybe break the languages into smaller
pieces?<BR>><BR>> for french, press 1... for english, press
2...<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
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