desertdude desertdude:
Ah, so Quebec is unilingual. Isn't that kind of fucked up ? The majority has to learn the minority and the minority to does not have to learn the majority. Starting to get a clearer picture why everyone is so piss tired of Quebec and its shananigans.
Not quite. No one is forced to learn any language (unless you fall afoul of québécois laws regarding language and education). What bothers me most is that Quebec is the only province trying to legislate an official language out of existence (or into irrelevancy) in its jurisdiction. What makes it worse is that it isn't only the PQ pushing this (although they are the most forceful), pissing on the anglos is a cross partisan tradition in Quebec. Liberals seem to back the status quo while the PQ and CAQ favour further restrictions on English.
Quebec could deal with its anglo minority the way New Brunswick deals with its francophone minority, with official bilingualism (which Quebec had once upon a time.)
Too much to expect I guess.
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And to me the ironic thing is ( from what I've heard/read ) is that the French don't consider Canadian French ( the language ) to be actually French or atleast proper French. Something about how continental French has evolved and while Quebec French being isolated for centuries and with outside influence has turned into something else. Don't know how far that is accurate though.
The dialect Quebecers speak is most similar to a common dialect of 17th century French. I've read that some Parisians consider it "archaic French" as it is permeated with slang, informalities, out of use terms, etc which can confuse the hell out of a speaker of standard (Parisian) French.
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