Posted on 11/23/2004 11:39:22 AM PST by UpHereEh
Eh. They can do whatever they want in their own country.
What is really weird is the rising popularity of football in Quebec. I don't even want to know how play calling by a QB sounds like in Quebecois.
If you travel to most parts of Quebec today, you get the sense that you are in a place where time stopped right around 1976 when the Olympics were held in Montreal. Nothing of any consequence happens there anymore. One of the most obvious illustrations of this involves professional sports . . . the Montreal Expos no longer exist, the Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver in the mid-1990s, and the Montreal Canadiens -- once among the most storied franchises in North American sports -- don't win Stanley Cups anymore.
That's interesting, since I've heard this both ways. Some Canadian friends of mine tell me that Quebecois is more "pure" than "French" French because the continental language has been diluted by a number of different European languages. On the other hand, I've heard of French-speaking parents in Quebec who send their kids to expensive private schools just so they can learn "real" French instead of what they consider the low-class dialect of Quebecois.
Now, there's socialism at work.
Translate all English documents into French.
Translate all French documents into English.
Twice the time; twice the effort; twice the paper; twice the file cabinets;
It's serious. Just a few years ago Quebec very nearly (by like a 1% popular vote margin) seceeded from Canada solely over language. My wife is from Montreal; she won't move back there precisely because the anti-English sentiments are so strong & deep.
Hut un ... hut deux ... hut trois ...
SD
I bought a T-shirt for my son in Wales. It is black with a big orange carrot on the chest. Below the carrot is the word "moron". Moron is the Welsh word for carrot. Swearing in Welsh is a pretty difficult proposition. It's an idiomatic exercise that isn't immediately apparent to a casual speaker.
First, Quebec is another example (along with the Basques and the various Celtic groups) of a politically correct white chr*stian European nationalism.
Secondly, the Parti Quebecois, a member of the Socialist International, is considered one of the models of the neo-Confederate movement in the United States (League of the South, etc.). The leftist Scottish National Party is another.
If Quebecers and Celts can have national separatist movements, why can't the Flemings???
So why is the English only movement "racist?" Are the French suddenly "people of color???"
Those french Canadians are loony as anything AND rude as heck too! One time while staying in New Brunswick, we stopped at a convenience store run by some french Canadians,& bought a bunch of stuff. When we checked out, I asked the woman for directions and she said to another worker "These stupid Americans want directions" in french before turning back around.....I speak some french, so I told her what I thought of her --- in french. Her mouth dropped open and she turned white as a sheet. Didn't say another word to us. LOL They are very arrogant people....if they don't like living in Canada, go back to france or at least to Quebec!
Rrr'bit, rrr'bit!
I believe the French Canadians (like our Louisiana Cajuns) are actually descended from Celtic Bretons who had their language taken from them (and French forced on them) by their conquerors.
Man, this situation just makes for one irony after another!
and that result was pretty much a Red Province/Blue City turnout.
That took everyone by surprise. The Alouettes were huge in Montréal but most of the fans were Anglo- the team folded in the 1980s after the exodus of English-speaking Montrealers eroded their fan base. After the CFL's US expansion failed the league's only successful American team, the Baltimore Stallions, moved to Montréal after the NFL decided to put a team in Baltimore. Now they're the hottest ticket going- every game's a sellout.
"Premier Jean Charest says he favours doing whatever needs to be done to promote the French language and culture."
Teach roaches to talk. They'd probably speak French.
These people are the ultimate ingrates and grudge-holders.
The Brits should have shipped them all back to La France in 1763 after the French and Indian Wars.
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