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467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 845â€"3824 Fax: 845â€"3085 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 Ian Oliver Publisher _ $st fls ising Director reemess Robert Glasbey Advemsm‘g Director gg‘l’l?mx;dmcz'r'neclb:, Elobicoke G:a%ian, Georgetown Inqdependem'l Norman Alexander Edifor and Sut, mbune. Mlion Censalen Chanplon, Geoff Hill Circulation Director t thike s ggghw Cc Teri Casas Office Manager At n mm“mw / e ém%sgy by copyright Any Tim Coles Production Manager reproduction in whole or in part of this material is strictly forbidden without the Oakville Beaver Weekend, Sunday, February 7, 1993 â€" 6 Mississauga News, Newmarketâ€"Aurora consent of the publisher. EDITORIAL GOing great t‘s hard to believe that it has been 25 years since Oakville residents Iused to commuting to Toronto in their cars, had the opportunity to make the trip in the comfort of GO Transit trains and buses. In Canada‘s Centennial year of 1967, Oakville was the west end of the line for the ‘new‘ commuter service. They were an instant success and their popularity has grown in the following decades since. Routes expanded from 15 to the present 52 stations and 13 bus termiâ€" nals to service the increasing number of people living in the greater Toronto area. A second Oakville station was opened in west Oakville and service extended through Burlington and beyond to Hamilton, where a revamped service will be housed in the former Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway building. Service expansion is also slated for the east end of the system through Pickering to Oshawa. This year GO will be introducing wheelchairâ€"accessible trains and work has already begun at retrofitting stations with elevators and escaâ€" lators. There has been unprecedented growth in Oakville over the past 25 years and the area is poised to begin yet another round of expansion. That will mean more people and more challenges to get them to and from Toronto. With the help of increased GO services, the challenges of growth can be met. Happy birthday GO...and keep up the good work. QUESTION OF THE WEEK What is the worst Oakville intersecâ€" tion and why? i Give us your opinion on this topic by callâ€" ing 845â€"5585, box 5012 . All callers are allowed 45 seconds to respond and must provide their name, address and phone number for verification. A sampling of the best answers will be published in the next Weekend edition of the Oakville Beaver. WHAT READERS SAID LAST WEEK What should the Halton Board of Education do to reduce education costs? To control costs at the Halton Board of Education the number of teachers must be reduced. Pupil teacher ratios should be based on the number of classroom teachâ€" ers rather than on the total number of teachers. This would permit elimination of costly layers of management. Nonâ€"teaching teachers could then be eliminated or replaced by fewer professional managers from the business community. This type of restructuring has occurred in the private sector and should occur in the public sector as well. Ian McLean adgdod No busing at all. They can use public transit. Kathy Romand aogdo I think one way that the Halton Board of Education could reduce education costs is by slightly increasing the class sizes in the early grades. The ministry has set a cap of 20 per classroom, but if the ministry could be persuaded to do otherwise, then I think 22â€"24 would be suitable numbers for the early grades of 1, 2 and 3. Mrs. Klatt agdod I think they should eliminate the professional development days they have per year, and if the teachers need this after they have had a university education on how to teach children, what they should do is take nine or 10 days that the development days are now and put them in the summertime when the teaching does not affect the children. This is not only costly to the taxpayers, but a colossal waste of money and it has been going on for years. I also note the days taken usually seem to be on a Monday or Friday thereby constituting a long weekend as opposed to having any educational value. This is a colossal waste of money and it should be stopped immediately. I believe we would save ourselves an incredible amount of money and education and education time. ’ Paul Sandilands 4 i sn \| 4,!,{( 6@\ I 3 s m 2o t â€" y .\: J.\ i B E\“\ Mangling language can have some very interesting consequences ; he fact that you‘re e cally makes you a member of one of the largest families on the planet. Three hundred and fifty million earthâ€" lings speak English as their mother tongue. More that one billion use it as a second lanâ€" guage. Yessir, an awful lot of information gets communicated in the language your and I are . sharing at this moment. But not always...well comâ€" municated. Shakespeare‘s tongue is a convoluted medium of expresâ€" sion with plenty of hairpin turns an cul de sacs. Foreigners don‘t always get the hang of it, right off. Which is why on the streets of Tokyo, you are apt to see designer Tâ€"shirts bearing sloâ€" gans such as 0.D. ON BOURâ€" GEOISIE MILK BOY MILK. What does it mean? Too inscrutable for this Occidental. There‘s a restaurant in Geneva the menus of which bear the blissful slogan: "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." And a Warsaw eatery lets its customers know that they can choose from two specials: "roasted duck let loose"or "beef rashers beaten up in the country people‘s fashion." If you‘ve still got your appetite, pop a Peptoâ€"Bismol and run before you get to the Acapulco restaurant which has a sigh on the wall saying: "The manager has personally passed all the water served here." reading this automatiâ€" | And in Denmark, harried international travellers will find perhaps the only truthful aeroâ€" nautical promise I‘ve ever encountered. An airline office in Copenhagen promises to "take your bags and send them in all directions." Protestants with tooth probâ€" lems can feel right at home in Hong Kong where a downtown dentist guarantees that teeth will be "extracted by the latest Methodists®". Then there is the problem of xâ€"rated Englishâ€"â€"wherein newâ€" comers to English inadvertently stumble into the offâ€"color range of the language spectrum. Such as the Zurich hotel which warns its Englishâ€"speakâ€" ing guests "Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purâ€" pose." Or the laundry in Rome which enjoins its female cusâ€" tomers to "leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time." Or the Paris haute couture boutique which advertises "dresses for street walking". Not to be outdone by the Bangkok dry cleaner which suggests that prospective cusâ€" tomers "drop their trousers here for best results." But fractured English is a twoâ€"way street. Sometimes when we anglophones try our tongues at translation we manâ€" gle and muckâ€"up with the best of them. In Japan, Cocaâ€"Cola cans bear the slogan: "I Feel Coke and Sound Special". Sounds stupid but it works. It works a lot better than the Cocaâ€"Cola PR department‘s first foray into China when they tried translatâ€" ing "It‘s The Real Thing‘ into Mandarin. Somehow, the slogan came out as "Bite the Wax Tadpole"â€"â€" a jingle not likely to move a lot of soft drink. Sometimes even a single word can get you in big trouble. General Motors found that out when they tried marketing the Chevrolet Nova in South America. "Nova" works fine in Englishâ€"â€"it comes from the Latin meaning ‘new‘. Unfortunately, if you throw in a space, it comes out in Spanish as no vaâ€"which means ‘won‘t go‘. Not the kind of reputation you want your car to have. But the Ford Motor Company had even bigger marâ€" keting headaches when they introduced their Pinto to Europe. ‘Pinto‘ is Portuguese slang for ‘small male organ‘. Precisely the opposite of what all those overâ€"hyped autoâ€" erotic adverts want customers to believe. â€"â€" â€" nc Th dn o oL. o4 tA s dn k P is 14 5 04 t s o M n s 94 P PA s s 0 kW a