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Originally Posted by Rochard
What do they mean French is "threatened by the prevalence of English"?
I live in the United States, Northern California... And Spanish is getting bigger and bigger here. I can't decide what language the population speaks. Nor can my government.
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Oh man... where to start...
Here in Quebec, the population is mostly French. Everyone is awesome and gets along and all that stuff. But the Parti-Quebecsois here want everything, everything, everything, to be french.
If you sell english books to english people only to people from England from your store in quebec, all of your signs must be in french.
If your business grows beyond a certain number of employees, people must speak french in the workplace.
If you have a restaurant, your menus must be in french, though you can also have english menus. Last year, a famous italian restaurant here was targeted by the language police and ordered to change the word PASTA to the french equivalent... (they chose to fight instead and one their case in the end).
If you are a Quebec business, the landing page of your website must be in french, and your whole site must be in french. You can offer english.
If you have a business in Quebec, you must answer your phone in french. Your voicemail must be in french first, with a "press 2 for English" message.
It just goes on and on and on...
... and oh yeah, REPUBLICANS!! GAARRRRRRrrr....
