If the Anglo girls were half as slutty as the French girls would we even be having this conversation. Where is my hash pipe? I'm bored with this.....
I would like to learn to speak Quebec French so as to chatter with my riding buddies in their own tongue.
I know enough Spanish to order tacos or get my face slapped. It's always a mystery.Someone who speaks three languages = Trilingual
Someone who speaks two languages = Bilingual
Someone who speaks one language = American
Harden up and learn another language.
Telling me to live elsewhere is not an answer. (as I said earlier, I've never gotten an answer to my rebuttal).Jozz l'a bien affirmé, plusieurs autres provinces seraient peut-être très contentes de recevoir ta visite...
Québec is the only place where french has a real place in North Am, and before we become assimilated by the anglos, I say it's damn important for people that come here learn french. Plenty of other provinces if you don't want to learn french... Nobody is forcing to stay in the West Island ya know...
Just saying... I respect your point but completely disagree with it and think people coming should be "forced" to learn at least a bit of french.
And why would try to implicate americans or people from other provinces in an issue that's strickly provincial and greatly linked to the greater Montreal area??
sometimes you are expecting a face slap, but you get taco instead?I know enough Spanish to order tacos or get my face slapped. It's always a mystery.
Well anyone who isn't a moron would learn both around here.
But When I started at Pratt and Whitney, there was a gang from Quebec City (right out of school) that didn't speak a word of English. Boy were they having a hard time.
Word. Since I spend the majority of my days keeping Bombardier aircraft from falling out of the sky I, from time to time, have the displeasure of speaking with their technical people. Its like getting the indian tech guy in New Dehli who is clearly speaking a second launguage, except with a french accent, in Montreal. I cannot understand a single thing any of those guys say. Keep that in mind next time you fly United or Delta Express.French Canadians are the worst
In a perfect world....sometimes you are expecting a face slap, but you get taco instead?
How does Bombardier compares to Embraer or Airbus in terms of "displeasure of talking with their technical people"?Word. Since I spend the majority of my days keeping Bombardier aircraft from falling out of the sky I, from time to time, have the displeasure of speaking with their technical people. Its like getting the indian tech guy in New Dehli who is clearly speaking a second launguage, except with a french accent, in Montreal. I cannot understand a single thing any of those guys say. Keep that in mind next time you fly United or Delta Express.
Probably from ontariowtf.....hummers....i thought they knew better..
hehehSomeone who speaks three languages = Trilingual
Someone who speaks two languages = Bilingual
Someone who speaks one language = American
Harden up and learn another language.
English ones are the fake ones.....They have you signing away power of attorney to Pauline Marois...and whatnotProbably from ontario
btw, most of the forms I've filled to date have been english versions.
Well, Scarebus I couldn't speak for but Embraer was worlds above Bombardier. Although I have touched anything out of Brasil in over 5 years so I guess it could have gotten worse.How does Bombardier compares to Embraer or Airbus in terms of "displeasure of talking with their technical people"?
Back to your padded cell please. Drop by a history class on your way there.Quebec is the thing that is most wrong with Canada.
The tail wags the dog affecting every aspect of life - from politicos giving speeches in two languages, appeasing the Bloc just to get simple legislation passed, never mind the bloodymindedness of the Quebexicans and their language laws. Or how about the money that the rest of the country pays INTO Quebec.
They should have the guts to secede. But apparently a majority of people in Quebec are well aware that the govt teat that they suck on would disappear and voted down that move.
**** em, if i had a Nuclear option i'd push it today.
I wish I was born in a place/to a family that afforded me the chance to be naturally bilangue. Vraiment.
Who are you? Are you that insecure?French Canadians are the worst
Like I said, you aren't screwing me. I actually can send my kids to english or french schools. (For now)Same.
But in the mean time I say don't sign the petition and stick it to MmmmMmMMMmmike.
Your whole argument fell apart right there.but it take effort for me to be as witty as I am in english.
Just what are you implying and/or inferring?Your whole argument fell apart right there.
Betcha hear that all the time...Ta yeule, mon tabarnac!!
(That's all the french I know)
Nah. I try not to associate with you people.Betcha hear that all the time...
MONTREAL – As the Société St. Jean Baptiste de Montréal plans an offensive to urge the government to tighten access to English schools, the Lester B. Pearson School Board will be voting on a resolution Tuesday night asking the government to broaden access to English education.
The resolution, planned with the board’s Central Parents Committee, asks the government to ensure that the choice of an English education is – at least in a limited way – made available to more people than is currently the case.
“We’re just asking them to let us live,” said Marcus Tabachnick, chairperson of the Pearson board. “We’re asking them to give us a little oxygen. It’s not an unreasonable request. This is not a monolithic Quebec.”
In October, the Supreme Court struck down Bill 104, an amendment to Quebec’s French Language Charter that tightened access to English schools. The Quebec government has said it would make its remedy known by the end of the National Assembly’s legislative session in June.
The SSJB has been pushing to have the government apply Bill 101 to unsubsidized private schools so there will be no loopholes.
Both the Pearson board and the English Montreal School Board have lobbied hard for the government not to revert to Bill 104’s restrictions, which they say cost them each about 500 students a year.
But Tabachnick said the new resolution isn’t simply a response to Bill 104.
“I don’t care about Bill 104 – the problem is bigger than that,” he said Monday. He said the government has as much of a responsibility to the English community as to anyone else.
“Our French immersion programs have put our kids in a position to live and work and succeed here.”
Nan Beaton, chairperson of the board’s CPC, said she is hoping the resolution will at least raise awareness about the dwindling population in English schools.
Tabachnick is hoping the EMSB – and all anglophone school boards – will adopt similar resolutions in the weeks to come.
“I don’t know how the government will respond, but we have to say something,” he said. “We’re not trying to save schools – we’re trying to save a community.”
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/SSJB+wants+clampdown+English+schools/2875592/story.html#ixzz0kyN8mwmf