C1 was the exam I took for nationality, I did not see any reason to do the work to prepare for a C2.
I started French at school at 5 years old and 25% of lessons were in French, my accent indicates I am not from the Hexagon.
There is no universal definition of an immigrant, only an UN recommended definition. Neither Insee or the UK Office of National appear to be fully aligned with that said definition. The UK appear to change the definition depending on what story the UK wants to tell.
Every British word has an accepted definition, or five. Whatever point I you are trying to make has missed me completely. I’m still a bit annoyed that you labelled me with a term that I would never use to describe myself. My other point remains valid, this is an anglophone site and we should me more concerned about the British roots of the words we use rather than those of the language of our adopted country.
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I think the only person who’s worried is you!
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I hope everyone’s opinion counts on this forum?
Yes, I think data definitions are important, but I used to work on Seveso sites where poor definition of process and or data could lead to injury, major pollution or loss of life.
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Absolutely. Glad you’ve got our backs on this one.
I apologise for not being British, but I am an Anglophone. No country has ownership of a language, there are more anglophones in India than there are in Britain. I also apologise for caring about France and the French language.
Au revoir.
You seem to be missing the point completely.
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I left FB in 2018; I recently rejoined, with a new “name” once I knew I was moving to France, because of the many excellent focus groups for this specific topic. Not one of my “real life” friends - or family - in the US know I am back. And I’ve felt very welcomed there as I do here. We all share a commonality despite our (sometimes) deep differences.
SF is, to me, a delightful large dinner party with very interesting people and conversations. And help: so many of you have already leapt in to answer my questions from dog food to literally everything else that pops in my head.
So as a newbie, THANK YOU ALL, oldies and newbies!
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C1 is a very good level to have reached, and native speakers aren’t covered by the CECRL in any case, so achieving C2, (while gratifying on a personal level, I imagine) wouldn’t necessarily make much of a difference to how you are perceived by the average French person.
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Of course they do, the moderators control the content.
Really?
There is one active moderator - me, I don’t recall the last time I told anyone what they should or should not discuss.
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This is a big myth about online forums - that “Moderators” are always watching and “censoring” what people say.
I was a Moderator on a photographer’s forum for several years and we were often accused of censorship and bias. In fact we intervened in fewer than 1% of discussions, and usually only to remind people to be polite. Removing posts was extremely rare.
And even compared to that, Billy and Cat maintain an extremely light touch on this forum.
One reason that people feel that moderation is “heavy handed” is that if they do get moderated it stings - I remember the first time I said something out of order on a forum and was moderated I was very embarrassed and annoyed. But I was definitely out of line on that occasion.
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Firstly, I have no criticism whatsoever regarding the moderation of this site.
My reply to billybutcher was that someone or more than one controls the “content”. Partly to protect the owners of the site and also to enable some degree of civilised discussion.
I didn’t say that moderators are always watching what people say and I certainly have no issue with whatever a moderator chooses to censor as part of the protection of the site and owners.
If we “really” don’t think there is control on forums can we “really” believe that if a poster was to spout on this forum extreme left/right wing thoughts, racist language or post pornographic images etc. a moderator wouldn’t “control” the content?
I’d hope so. Thus all sites have a greater or lesser degree of control of the content. I didn’t say that they control what people should or shouldn’t discuss.
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I apologise if I misunderstood the point you were trying to make. 
My reply was just in relation to a criticism of forums that I’ve seen many times.
Not a problem,
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Not here, Nigel. The moderating touch is very light here as the tradition of the site is individuals - and the community only as a backstop - are largely self-moderating.
And long may it last.
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Were the content illegal, yes, but that is a different matter. Free speech only extends to the bounds of legality (which means someone posting e.g. hate speech would be censored but that would be necessary to protect the site). Yes it is possible a judgement call would be needed.
Pornography - hmmm, yes I think that would be removed as well even if technically legal. Those who want pornography can easily find it these days but the place to do so is not here.
Other than that the problem is not so much that I or Cat would censor an extreme view but that those posting such views and frequently those responding rarely remain rational and polite - which is against the forum T&C.
So feel free to say that you love Trump and Putin, expect some push back but if everyone stays polite it will be allowed.
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Or, just order something from M&S to be collected from a local Relais shop that (if you’re lucky) turns out to be a spank emporium the like of which you never knew existed.
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Masochism & Spanks? 
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