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What is the point of expecting people to be bilingual? Is it not more efficient to standardize on one language?
by poikniok 9y ago
What is the point of expecting people to be bilingual? Is it not more efficient to standardize on one language?
- virtualwhys 9y agobecause, as the Quebec license plate reads, "je me souviens" (what they did). By law French comes first in Quebec, from education, to store front signs (French 2X as large and taking center stage relative to English words), to "moving day" (July 1st is technically Canada Day), to provincal holidays, etc. Makes sense, a few million Francophones hemmed in by hundreds of millions of Anglophones -- in order to preserve the language and culture measures need to be taken to ensure that future generations carry on the fleur-de-lis.
- Raphmedia 9y agoJe me souviens/ Que né sous le lys/ Je croîs sous la rose. I remember/ That born under the lily/ I grow under the rose.
- virtualwhys 9y agoThanks, you'll get varying responses depending on who you ask. It's definitely subject to interpretation and has probably held different meanings over time. The quoted line prompted me to check out the wiki page on the phrase[1], interesting. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_me_souviens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_me_souviens
- jellicle 9y agoThat one language, in Quebec, would be French, so.... be careful what you ask for.
- magnusdeus123 9y agoIs French as the language of common exchange something to be scared of?