tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post6967280314690939220..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: How to Be a Good Quebec CitizenEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-91349392051722037812012-09-30T19:46:02.260-04:002012-09-30T19:46:02.260-04:00This is an interesting point a view, one which we ...This is an interesting point a view, one which we rarely get to hear. Thank you for having written in French. I do not get however how partition should lead to a Grande Noirceur. The Catholic Church does not have the grip it used to on the province. If anythig, Quebeckers are mostly relativists. Plus, liberalism and separatism are not antithetical. I do read a fear expressing itself, but no rational argument to back it.Laurencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-11062692353530031942012-09-25T01:47:45.052-04:002012-09-25T01:47:45.052-04:00Interesting article but for this unfortunate slip ...Interesting article but for this unfortunate slip : "Let the language fanatics do what they wish with their lives. Encouraging people to avoid English is akin to the Southern plantation owners keeping their slaves barefoot, pregnant and stupid." I believe we all agree here that being unilingual does not amount to uncivilsed backwardness. <br /><br />To me, the author is mistaken about what he qualifies as "language fanatism". From what I gather by talking to people, the idea is not to keep anyone in the dark (unilingual dimwittedness), but not to spend energy encouraging what happens quite naturally nowadays, that is mostly every francophone teen picking up English quickly from it's being all over the place. <br /><br />In short, disregarding pleas like Mr Labrie's simply does not fall as easy to me as it does to the author. I have felt how haunting it is to know the frailty of your own mother tongue. It is a humbling perspective, not a racist one.Laurencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-91693061014985867502011-04-29T01:08:01.961-04:002011-04-29T01:08:01.961-04:00-- Officiellement, je suis «allophone» parce que m...-- Officiellement, je suis «allophone» parce que mon père est venu au Canada de Pays-Bas et a épousé ma mère canadienne en 1940. Ancêtres de ma mère sont venus au Québec principalement d'Irlande, avant la grande vague d'immigration irlandaise. La plupart des Irlandais n'aiment pas être confondu avec les Anglais. Donc, je suis Québécoise allophone, 5ème génération, impure laine de vielle souche.<br />-- Parler français dans ma province de Québec est normal pour la majorité: franco / anglo / allophones. Si j'été pure laine de vielle souche, je tiens à être bilingue, apprentissage l'anglais comme 2ème langue. La langue des<br />affaires, de la science et la technologie partout dans le monde est l'anglais. Je pense de qu'il est une bonne idée d'être à l'aise dedans. Le point de vue PQ est l'anglais est nécessaire pour l'Elite - ou pour être précis, pour les personnes supérieurs du gouvernement qui <br />décider pour le reste de nous - la hoi poloi - que le français est suffisante. Cela limite les Québécois. Les francophones devenons une population captive, semblable à l'époque de Duplessis, partenaire avec l'Eglise catholique lorsque le gouvernement et l'église gardé Québécois dans "la grande noirceur". <br />-- Je ne suis pas intéressé par la séparation du Québec Canada parce que pour moi cela signifie que nous faut remonter à la grande noirceur!<br />-- Le français n'est pas ma langue maternelle et quand j'écris en français, il n'est pas fluide que ce serait si elle était ma langue maternelle. Par conséquent, je m'excuse s'il ya des erreurs dans mon opinion écrite.S. Dykhuishttp://sashacanadian.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-36152245805138501262010-06-20T11:38:51.902-04:002010-06-20T11:38:51.902-04:00"No, the most extremists don't want us (t..."No, the most extremists don't want us (the French Quebeckers) to learn English or any other language as a matter of fact because like any totalitarian regime, their ultimate goal is to subjugate people while maintaining them in total ignorance of what's going on around them."<br /><br />Et vlan en plein dans les dents, you're bang up, it allways feels like they need us francophones to be in a isalnd blissfully unaware of anything other than Soirée Canadienne ;)Eric Lavoienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-15453277024131868922010-01-21T10:58:02.663-05:002010-01-21T10:58:02.663-05:00"Quebec Francophones don't need to learn..."Quebec Francophones don't need to learn English at all, because while it's nice to speak a second language, like Spanish or English, it's entirely unnecessary."<br /><br />No, the most extremists don't want us (the French Quebeckers) to learn English or any other language as a matter of fact because like any totalitarian regime, their ultimate goal is to subjugate people while maintaining them in total ignorance of what's going on around them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-12448386693653282322010-01-21T10:55:46.808-05:002010-01-21T10:55:46.808-05:00"Réjean Labrie, from Québec City"
This ..."Réjean Labrie, from Québec City"<br /><br />This guy is probably the same as the Astidastineux alias Anti-Pollution on the "Bon blogue bad blog" blog. Except this one is probably coming from Beauport. <br /><br />For the "bilingual stuff", this guy must be freaking out when he realizes nowaday that most products come in around 10 to 20 different languages: latin derived, arabic derived and asian derived.<br /><br />It's not as if English is some kind of far remote language like japenese or chinese for instance (no offense to those people). As a matter of fact around 50% of English vocabulary is derived from old French as the bourgeoisie and English elites from the 15th to the 19th century spoke French amongst each other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com