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| From | bob <segarini@rogers.com> |
| Subject | Re: He Has Spoken |
| Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:49:44 -0500 (EST) |
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I REALLY have to start using spell-check...
bob
bob <segarini@rogers.com> wrote:
If you want to learn a language that will stand you in good stead for the next 50 years, try Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese.
The French, (read: Quebecois), cost the Canadian Government over ha;f a billion dollars a year because highway signs, etc, have to be in two languages.
We pay for that with our tax dollars.
They insist on 'equality", but take that to mean, "more than you", when it comes to everything.
Sure, the entire country has to have 2 official languages, but in Quebec, it has been illeagal to have any language other than French on business signage, regardless of what your business sells, and it is a 'law' that is enforced with vigor. I heard a rumour that it has been rescinded...does anyone know if that's true or not?
My xousins, (Italian but both have lived in Paris for years), came to visit me in Montreal one year. They went shopping one afternoon, and when they came back, they were laughing their asses off. When I asked them why, they told me that listening to Quebec's version of French was like me hearing an American say, "Golly, ya'll, I caint seems ta undurstaind whatcher tawkin' 'bout. Hail, les jus have us a soda and mebbe shoot some-a them there pidggens".
I loved living in Montreal and Quebec City, they are a Canadian National Treasure, but the rest of Quebec, (mostly rural), the ones that want to seperate, etc...they don't realize that without the Rnglish, Chinese, Middle Eastern, etc people that live there's economic contributions and love of the Province, they would either be a part of New York or a theme park, ("Come to Quebec and be insuled by a REAL French person"), in a heartbeat.
Insert smiley emoticon here.
bob
rickbilous wrote:
> That got me wondering what percentage it actually is that don't
speak French
> and here's what I found on Wikipedia. It looks like about 75 % of
Canadians
> speak English only but if you go outside the province of Quebec to
the other
> 9 provinces and 3 territories, 90 % of the population speaks only or
mainly
> English:
Okay, do you really think Wikipedia is a good source of information? A
site that you can add/delete whatever you want to? Terribly
unreliable, Jesus was born in 1942, according to them/it.
Honestly though, French is a mandatory subject in school in ALL
Canadian provinces, up to Grade 6. After that, it is an
option/elective. Some provinces it is mandatory up to Grade 8.
Regardless, anyone who grew up in Canada and is under 35 should have a
basic understanding of French. Every major city has a French TV
channel, and all of our packaging is bilingual. It seems rather
strange to me that Canadians don't seem to recognize that.
NP American Heartbreak - strong POWER POP if you like the Exies and
Robin Black
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