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To: RegulatorCountry

It's so annoying that all the packages in the stores have french translations. Does anyone know how this got started? I mean how many people speak only french?


32 posted on 12/17/2005 9:27:45 PM PST by CAWats (And I will make no distinction between the terrorists and the democrats.)
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To: CAWats
It's so annoying that all the packages in the stores have french translations. Does anyone know how this got started? I mean how many people speak only french?

It's probably done that way so that the manufacturer can sell it into Canada without having to have two separate packages for the product (one for the US, another bilingual for Canada). Canada requires, by law, that all information on a package / label to be in English and French.

47 posted on 12/18/2005 8:52:15 AM PST by RedWhiteBlue
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To: CAWats
It's so annoying that all the packages in the stores have french translations. Does anyone know how this got started?

My guess: if you want to sell to le Canadiens, it has to be bilingual.

54 posted on 12/18/2005 11:20:26 AM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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