tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post2380141436665775963..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: NHL Coaches Show the Power of BiligualismEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-27407447540741466882011-05-29T07:52:34.184-04:002011-05-29T07:52:34.184-04:00@Press 9
Nope. I simply type "option" a...@Press 9<br /><br />Nope. I simply type "option" and the letter "e" on my iMac to create the accented "é". I was typing that word in French out of politeness, but I blindly assumed it was spelled the same as it is in English. It isn't. The correct French spelling is <i>département</i>.<br /><br />The reason I used that word at all is that many Americans wrongly assume French Guiana is the equivalent of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands. But Guyane isn't a territory or commonwealth of France---diplomatically, it IS France and the proper equivalent would be Hawaii or Alaska.Edward J. Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925008506185290162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-53868950388764753232011-05-28T23:54:36.839-04:002011-05-28T23:54:36.839-04:00"...départment..."
French keyboard?...H..."...départment..."<br /><br />French keyboard?...Hmmmm.Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-50101544418237316272011-05-28T18:15:34.441-04:002011-05-28T18:15:34.441-04:00Has anybody examined how the people in Belize (for...Has anybody examined how the people in Belize (formerly British Honduras) are maintaining English as their language, and whether they have had to resort to anything like Law 101 to keep out Spanish, or whether they are consciously teaching Spanish to their children in addition to English so they can speak with their neighbours? Also, what about the French départment of Guyanne (French Guyana) in South America?Edward J. Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925008506185290162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-26357558067516935482011-05-27T12:27:46.396-04:002011-05-27T12:27:46.396-04:00@ Adski
I can only agree with you - that was my p...@ Adski<br /><br />I can only agree with you - that was my point, not as nicely put. Thank you. <br /><br />Montreal AllophoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-59228734906317591762011-05-27T10:55:11.489-04:002011-05-27T10:55:11.489-04:00"...100% by power and privilege..."
Vou..."...100% by power and privilege..."<br /><br />Vous ête en amérique du Nord kiki,pas au Tibet.<br /><br />Sacré adski,toujours au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment.Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-2559616590327560972011-05-27T10:42:49.002-04:002011-05-27T10:42:49.002-04:00"Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein"
Kossé ç..."Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein"<br /><br />Kossé ça tabarnak?Un code postal du Kurdistan ou tu t'es enfargé dans l'clavier?<br /><br />Let's try again mystery dude!Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-38023871834799834102011-05-27T09:46:45.717-04:002011-05-27T09:46:45.717-04:00“Should Canada had Swahili or German spoken by the...“Should Canada had Swahili or German spoken by the majority (meaning that the anglophones from Qc would speak them instead), you'd have nothing against it, right?”<br /><br />This particular fallacy is based on proximity and numbers. Meaning that if language X is close to location Y and is spoken by a large number of people, then we should logically proceed with its cleansing from location Y. <br /><br />The problem is that then a bunch of people come in and they arbitrarily define the “close” and the “sufficient”. So for example the US is close enough to count, but France (where only French is spoken) is not close enough to make a case for those Anglos/Allos who want to keep the English language. Also, the US population of 350 million is “sufficiently high”, whereas the France population of 60 million is not “high enough”. So it’s all dandy, but who do we let decide the criteria, and how do we know his/her decisions aren’t…errr….biased? Or political?<br /><br />Also, the fallacy has an obvious flaw – the closer the proximity of language X and the greater the population of speakers of language X – the MORE (and not less) seriously should the language X be treated. Treating is less seriously can ONLY arise out of political considerations (power, control, entitlement), with little or no regard for the practical consequences. <br /><br />So not only are the seppies hypocrites but also ignorant hucksters and manipulators, motivated 100% by power and privilege, and not (as they would like to have us believe) by cultural concerns.adskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-15121614345133562112011-05-27T06:22:56.725-04:002011-05-27T06:22:56.725-04:00@ Press 9
"Hé Ducon!Ont-ils la première puis...@ Press 9<br /><br />"Hé Ducon!Ont-ils la première puissance anglophone au monde dans leur cours arrière?"<br /><br /><br />Let me see if I got it right. The problem is, in your opinion, that anglos speak the same language as the neighbour South of the border, is that right? Should Canada had Swahili or German spoken by the majority (meaning that the anglophones from Qc would speak them instead), you'd have nothing against it, right? You'd gladly let the commercial signs up in either of these languages, SSJB would have never existed and the ridiculous amount of money they are receiving from OUR taxes would have been put to better use, we'd all hold hands and sing? <br /><br />Doesn't that make you a wee bit hypocrite? Which greatly complements your overt xenophobia! Good job!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-30181191927389477312011-05-26T20:31:59.853-04:002011-05-26T20:31:59.853-04:00@ mae west hello fun
Suivez ces étapes attentivem...@ mae west hello fun<br /><br />Suivez ces étapes attentivement,tss!tss! concentration s.v.p!:<br /><br />Select profile / Name/URL / Sous l'étiquette "name" indiquez votre pseudonyme et cliquez "continue",voila.<br /><br />De cette façon,vous n'aurez plus a signer vos déconcertantes bafouilles et votre prochain gribouilli sera affublé automatiquement de cet insignifiant pseudo qu'est WEST machin truc.<br /><br />Ne me remerciez surtout pas.Aider un démuni porte chance paraît-il.Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-31174123351298489492011-05-26T19:38:15.919-04:002011-05-26T19:38:15.919-04:00DEPressED9
je vous conseille de lire un livre de P...DEPressED9<br />je vous conseille de lire un livre de Paul Watzlawick nommé "Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein" : Vous y trouverez le secret pour rester toujours un petit unilingue miserable tel que vous l'êtes...<br />Ah, désolé ! J'ai oublié : vous n'êtes pas capable de lire les langues étrangères (probablement, y compris la vôtre). BBaaannggg!<br /><br />WESTALLOPHONE++Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-88442681987015187362011-05-26T16:09:36.611-04:002011-05-26T16:09:36.611-04:00"You do know that most people wipe their asse..."You do know that most people wipe their asses with your laws. I, for example, have the pages of bill 101 printed on my toilet paper."<br /><br />C'est très bien adskouille,de cette façon elle vous accompagne au quotidien et dans les endroits les plus intimes.<br /><br />De plus votre érudition sur les habitudes des porcs ne surprendra personne ici,connaissant vos origines d'Europe de l'Est.Les Polonais sont,parait-il,de grands spécialistes en ce qui a trait aux charcuteries et aux saucisses en tout genre (incluant même la viande de chien) hyper-cancérigènes selon les spécialistes.<br /><br />Vous pourrez vous vanter (non vautrer) d'avoir amélioré les connaissances d'un seppie sur le sujet des cochons.Tellement connaisseur qu'on pourrait présumer que vous avez déja partagé le même toît ;)<br /><br />Votre français est tout aussi impressionnant que mon anglais,félicitation!Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-75779155564026746152011-05-26T12:13:40.460-04:002011-05-26T12:13:40.460-04:00“Rien de plus récent kiki et surtout de plus perti...“Rien de plus récent kiki et surtout de plus pertinent? “<br /><br />It’s very important if you realize that people and things don’t really change.<br /><br />“le désespoire de revoir un jour Montréal retournée aux mains des anglos”<br /><br />If the choice is between the Westmount Rhodesians and Outremont neo-Rhodesians, then I’m choosing “none of the above”.<br /><br />The interesting thing about people like you is that back when Montreal was ruled by the Anglo clique, you weren’t looking at them with disgust – you were looking at them with envy. Your objective was not to do away with them as much as to emulate them. Like the pigs in Animal Farm who banished the abusive farmer, but then moved from the stable into his house, started sleeping on linen sheets, and proclaimed themselves more “equal than others” (which sounds awfully close to “les maitres chez nous” doesn’t it?)<br /><br />“plus nos lois seront renforcées”<br /><br />You do know that most people wipe their asses with your laws. I, for example, have the pages of bill 101 printed on my toilet paper. <br /><br />“Try again!”<br /><br />Your English is truly impressive.adskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-33964370107298770962011-05-26T11:24:47.570-04:002011-05-26T11:24:47.570-04:00"The collection of Hitchens’ edgy articles fr..."The collection of Hitchens’ edgy articles from between 1985 to 1993 was published in 1993..."<br /><br />Rien de plus récent kiki et surtout de plus pertinent?<br /><br />Mon père dirait : Ce petit poloc tourne les coins ronds.<br /><br />Un peu a la manière des tests d'intelligence destinés aux primates.Certains sujets tentent désespérément de faire entrer un cube dans une forme circulaire ou l'inverse.<br /><br />Moi je dis:Circonvolution intellectuelle générée par le désespoire de revoir un jour Montréal retournée aux mains des anglos.Quel fantasme!<br /><br />D'une certaine façon,vous me faite pitié kiki,surtout avec le dépoussiérage de vos "ouvrages" aussi désuètes qu'inpertinents.<br /><br />Plus il y aura d'anglos dans la métropole,plus nos lois seront renforcées.Logique implacable et fort cruelle pour les individus de votre acabit.<br /><br />Try again!Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-3878384407736899302011-05-26T10:20:08.389-04:002011-05-26T10:20:08.389-04:00Mississauga Guy: “Perhaps at long last French Queb...Mississauga Guy: “Perhaps at long last French Quebec society is turning the corner and with immigration being an increasingly important part of the Quebec fabric, the old demons are losing their significance and so are the separatists”<br /><br />This reminds me of a passage from an article I read recently titled “Cretinismo Eroico” and published in The Nation in July 1988. In it Christopher Hitchens recounts a visit to Prague in its last year of communism. He ends the article with this:<br /><br />“The Castle still looms above the city from the Hradcany Hill, but it is inhabited by pygmies who were fished out of the dustbin of history, and whimper in their sleep at the thought of going back to it”<br /><br />Substitute the “Castle at the Hradcany Hill” with Outremont, Le Plateau, Quebec City, L’Assemblee Nationale, or wherever the creeps fished out in the 1960’s now reside, and this statement fits the Quebec elite perfectly.<br /><br />(The collection of Hitchens’ edgy articles from between 1985 to 1993 was published in 1993. Topics range from international to domestic American issues, and span a very interesting historical period. Highly recommended: http://tinyurl.com/3j4om2c)adskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-55971454112473287132011-05-26T10:10:35.926-04:002011-05-26T10:10:35.926-04:00“best treated minority in the world”
Adski,une fo...“best treated minority in the world”<br /><br />Adski,une fois pour toute,nommez une autre minorité aussi bien traitée que la vôtre.<br />Nous sommes très bon avec vous et vous le savez très bien.Quelqu'un vous empêche-t-il de vous exprimez librement sur la place publique?Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-72947366314140367642011-05-26T10:04:47.252-04:002011-05-26T10:04:47.252-04:00"...sometimes takes time to flush the crap do..."...sometimes takes time to flush the crap down the sewer."<br /><br />Did you left Québec in 84 ? XD!!!Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-6054315338549846672011-05-26T09:41:57.507-04:002011-05-26T09:41:57.507-04:00Mississauga Guy: “the poor saps from Quebec were b...Mississauga Guy: “the poor saps from Quebec were being told what they can't do by their supposed "betters" who had the privileges of earning enormous academic credentials leading to rewarding careers.”<br /><br />Some may argue however, that it’s not true because of a relatively high rate (40-50% depending on which source you look) of En-Fr bilingualism amongst Francophone Quebeckers, ignoring the fact that these Quebeckers learned English in opposition to the official line, not in agreement with it (i.e. essentially through civil disobedience). This is the same fallacy as with the English Quebec minority being the “best treated minority in the world”. Essentially, this fallacy takes something that’s thriving (English minority) or occurring (En-Fr bilingualism) and it presumes that it therefore must be well-nurtured and supported. But that’s not the case. Some things may thrive and occur independently of many other things, or even despite the obvious opposing forces. This “post hoc ergo propter hoc” fallacy – “afterward therefore because of” – falls flat because not every event that occurs now is caused by an event or action that precedes it or runs parallel to it.<br /><br />The rate of En-Fr bilingualism does not prove anything about the intentions of the drafters of Bill 101. These “statesmen” (most of whom as MGuy pointed out enjoyed success thanks to their command of English) have set out to deny the same privileges to others. They set out to engineer a captive society over which they’d rule without external interference, having successfully manipulated the federal government into acquiescence.<br /><br />That they fell slightly short of this objective does not mean that they haven’t tried.adskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-50828504391330926972011-05-26T08:29:32.407-04:002011-05-26T08:29:32.407-04:00Very, very well said. Très, très bien dit. I am p...Very, very well said. Très, très bien dit. I am perfectly bilingual, proud of it and so thankful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-73492176948894899132011-05-26T00:05:06.013-04:002011-05-26T00:05:06.013-04:00"Do the kids actually go home and speak Engli..."Do the kids actually go home and speak English? No, they still speak their native language at home (I have relatives and friends living both in Norway and Holland)."<br /><br />Hé Ducon!Ont-ils la première puissance anglophone au monde dans leur cours arrière?<br /><br />Faites-vous exprès pour être aussi idiot ou c'est de naissance?Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-37932815466213633182011-05-25T23:05:57.987-04:002011-05-25T23:05:57.987-04:00Adski a plus de crédibilité qu'un twit qui obf...Adski a plus de crédibilité qu'un twit qui obfusque, ment et utilise 3 différent noms pour régurgité des idioties.Qque chose de pourrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-56092393885675476982011-05-25T22:13:22.462-04:002011-05-25T22:13:22.462-04:00How come no one mentiones the Scandinavian countri...How come no one mentiones the Scandinavian countries where English is taught from the first grade - in state-run schools? Do the kids actually go home and speak English? No, they still speak their native language at home (I have relatives and friends living both in Norway and Holland).<br /><br />Also I come from a European country with a latin-based language. From early on we were taught two foreign languages, as part of the curriculum. Also, there were high-schools subsidized by the state (actually the entire education system up to university is state-funded) where the main subjects were taught in German, English or French, so kids were learning everything except math and the mother tongue (grammar and literature) in one of those three languages, depending on the highschool. Did kids go home and spoke to their parents in any other language than their mother tongue? Um... no.<br /><br />So all this paranoia about Bill 101 being extended to CEGEPs and (later, probably) university is pure nonsense. I can't believe how people fall for what some... political parasites feed them. <br /><br />Oh, and btw... learning more than one language from early on raises the IQ. I am not talking about two-digit points, but enough to matter. Even if 5 points, it brings one from 69 (legally 'tarded - I am sorry, can I say that?) to 74 (within the normal range). So why would parents deny their children the chance to be smarter?<br /><br />Montreal AllophoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-11629821446755711872011-05-25T22:06:16.490-04:002011-05-25T22:06:16.490-04:00...to Anon @ 12:22PM: Quite right, I meant to say ......to Anon @ 12:22PM: Quite right, I meant to say a quarter millennium ago, not a quarter century, and thanks for your compliment re my earlier contribution.<br /><br />Adski, because of my age, I remember many of the members from that first cabinet, and it's hard not to forget how the poor saps from Quebec were being told what they can't do by their supposed "betters" who had the privileges of earning enormous academic credentials leading to rewarding careers. <br /><br />In my opinion, Quebec was led astray by bad religious leaders and exploitive political leaders who fed off the lousy church doctrine.<br /><br />Perhaps at long last French Quebec society is turning the corner and with immigration being an increasingly important part of the Quebec fabric, the old demons are losing their significance and so are the separatists. I'm hoping the Dark Ages in Quebec are finally coming to an end...decades after the rest of the continent moved forward.<br /><br />Until then, trolls like Press 9 et al will keep shooting their yaps off with their vitriolic drivel. It sometimes takes time to flush the crap down the sewer.Mississauga Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-90577398644710395522011-05-25T19:45:27.341-04:002011-05-25T19:45:27.341-04:00"It’s the only place, as far as the teaching ..."It’s the only place, as far as the teaching of the English language is concerned. Even in countries that are not politically aligned with the United States and the West, the use and the teaching of the English language is not a matter of debate..."<br /><br />Comment peut-on être aussi stupide ou totalement débranché de la situation Géo-politico-linguistique du Québec pour vomir une telle ânerie.Le pire dans tout ça c'est que kiki est sérieux et vit (parmi nous) au Québec depuis des années.Réellement idiot ou sous l'effet d'un hallucinogène quelconque.Press 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-32313017440111923692011-05-25T19:00:23.494-04:002011-05-25T19:00:23.494-04:00Amen, Editor, Gaétan Frigon, and adski.Amen, Editor, Gaétan Frigon, and adski.Apparatchiknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-5021719802536949212011-05-25T18:44:53.999-04:002011-05-25T18:44:53.999-04:00"They’re like a broken record about this NDP ..."They’re like a broken record about this NDP unilingual candidate..."<br /><br />Quelles sont les chances qu'un candidat unilingue francophone soit élu dans la région de Toronto?<br /><br />Tic tac tic tac....0%!<br /><br />Ainsi va la vie dans ce magnifique pays.Je commence a croire que nous (collectivement)sommes des loosers,vraiment.Press 9noreply@blogger.com