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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: LC EFA on January 04, 2009, 06:56:52 AM
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This is just another example of the primitives being able to hold two logically contradictory positions at the same time.
undercutter2006 (284 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jan-04-09 12:02 AM
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quebec orders immigrants to learn french or leave
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Starting in January, immigrants applying to come to Quebec will be required to sign a declaration pledging to learn French and acknowledging that they understand men and women have equal rights, and political and religious powers are separate.
Anyone who refuses to sign the declaration will not have their application accepted, Quebec Immigration Minister Yolande James said yesterday.
"Coming to Quebec is not a right, it is a privilege," Ms. James said.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=...
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4762385
Imagine the reaction if you replaced Quebec with America, and French with English in the above.
One would expect the primitives to be completely opposed to this, like they are whenever it's suggested speaking English should be mandatory in the USA.
Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-04-09 12:04 AM
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1. A bit silly, and I think aimed more at preserving French in the face of English
than at ensuring immigrants assimilate.
SillyFlower (691 posts) Sun Jan-04-09 01:18 AM
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French is a beautiful language
that's all ;-)
Skink (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-04-09 12:07 AM
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2. We require English here do we not?
Fire1 (668 posts) Sun Jan-04-09 12:09 AM
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3. Wee wee monsieur
Bzzzt. FAIL.
There doesn't appear to be any opposition to the idea that immigrants should be required to speak the common language of the demographic they're trying to migrate too.
Now if only they could apply the same model of thinking to the USA (and any other Western English speaking nation)
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Hmmmm...last time I went to Huntington Park, East LA, etc., I don't recall "language police" ensuring that shop signs in English are larger than the ones in Spanish. Last time I checked, the US has not adopted English as an official language, and while many states have English as an (not the only) official language, it's far from the only one spoken or used for government correspondence.
And yet the DUmmies can take both sides of a position at the same time. Interesting, really.
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Response to Reply #2
3. Wee wee monsieur
Wee wee?
:whatever:
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There's, as usual, a problem with this.
Enforcing language doesn't preserve it; it only embalms it.
It was a Frenchman, Sanche de Gramont, who said that, during one of those episodic seizures when the French were trying to ban words borrowed from English.
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Wee wee?
:whatever:
Hmmm...seems the primitive has enough problems with English, and they just carry over to astounding ignorance in French.
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Canadian French is a bastardized version of the French language. Not so beautiful...
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Canadian French is a bastardized version of the French language. Not so beautiful...
This happens all the time; I wish I could find one of many stories about it, when a Frenchman encounters someone from Quebec or Cajun Louisiana speaking French.
Apparently it's hilarious.
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This happens all the time; I wish I could find one of many stories about it, when a Frenchman encounters someone from Quebec or Cajun Louisiana speaking French.
Apparently it's hilarious.
I vacation in VT and ME, which is invaded by Canadians doing the same year round. My mom is 100% Canadian also. I have been to Canada many many times.
It is not the French you will hear in Europe. Not by a long shot.
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There's, as usual, a problem with this.
Enforcing language doesn't preserve it; it only embalms it.
It was a Frenchman, Sanche de Gramont, who said that, during one of those episodic seizures when the French were trying to ban words borrowed from English.
It's not that other languages should be in any way restricted. People intending to migrate permanently to a place where the overwhelming majority of the population communicate in Language X , should have at the very least a functional grasp of Language X, and the willingness to learn it in order to have any chance of succeeding in that society.
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Wee wee?
:whatever:
Yeah....Wee wee.....french for p!ss on it.
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This happens all the time; I wish I could find one of many stories about it, when a Frenchman encounters someone from Quebec or Cajun Louisiana speaking French.
Apparently it's hilarious.
Indeed - The French consider other dialects the same way people in the United States are amused by dialects from regions other than their own, and England is amused by American dialect as a whole. (as well as Welsh, Scottish and Irish dialects)
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Wee wee?
:whatever:
(http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/images/pissboy.jpg)
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It's not that other languages should be in any way restricted. People intending to migrate permanently to a place where the overwhelming majority of the population communicate in Language X , should have at the very least a functional grasp of Language X, and the willingness to learn it in order to have any chance of succeeding in that society.
People in parts of the US (all of Southern California for example) one can be born, live their entire life and die in old age and never learn nor speak a word of English.
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What? What a bunch of racist haters!!!!!!! How dare they make you speak one language :fuelfire:
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Indeed - The French consider other dialects the same way people in the United States are amused by dialects from regions other than their own, and England is amused by American dialect as a whole. (as well as Welsh, Scottish and Irish dialects)
Not just England...my mother was from Austria, but learned "the King's English." She couldn't believe the stuff we speak is the same language...she always insisted that we speak "American," not English. :-)