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Posted by Greg_UWS on Tue Jul 31 03:07:37 2012, in response to Man gets apology from Montreal transit ... ' they don't serve English peole ', posted by Gold_12TH on Mon Jul 30 17:32:04 2012. This discussion needs the input of a French Canadian. Are there any here?? OH WAIT! I'm one. LOL!Most of the posts, with the exception of Selly's, are pure merde de toureau. "Standard" French isn't understood in Quebec?? Nonsense! Of course it is. A few TV shows are produced locally but where do you think the rest come from?? European French can't understand us?? Well, they may not understand some of the really isolated, country cousins who, in fact, speak a different dialect called "joual," rapidly dying out and spoken only by old people. (In fact, I don't understand it either.) The French language in Canada today is not the French of 100 years ago. Much improved, although with a distinctive sound and accent of which we're proud and Europeans find "amusant." In France, all I have to do is ask for a cup of coffee and I get, "Salut, Quebecois!!" To the matter at hand: The Rev. Michael Dunning obviously has an ax to grind-- sort of a Canadian Rev. Ian Paisley, determined to make a goofy remark by an over-enthusiastic and silly francophone into a federal case. Within the Province, he's a "minority" so, of course, the Tranport Authority is bending over backwards and kissing his Anglo ass in an attempt to diffuse the situation. (Hmm, does any of this sound familiar?? LOL). We've all experienced this type of slight-- on my part, in English Canada and, as a white person, in Harlem where I was working one day on the job. (I was asked to leave a small diner where "my kind" wasn't welcome.) Hey, you shrug, write it off as pure ignorance, and move on. I get the feeling that Rev. Dunning is hoping to get a lot of mileage out of his Montreal train experience. (Again, sound familiar?) |
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