in our schools?
Bambi would like to thank Mr. Jonathan Kay for informing us of the following:
It is getting late on the East Coast now. Bambi is about to go to sleep. This post will be very brief: (1). It will feature and older post on this topic by Dr. Mathieu Bock-Côté; and (2) once again, it will end with a song honouring the French language in North America. If what we are doing to the latter is not a form of modern “colonization“, to use the word of a relative, what is it then? And what will be the end result of all this linguistic non-sense? Bambi refuses to use this “Newspeak“, whether she lives in France, Lebanon, Québec, New Brunswick, or BC. She prefers to stick to the beautiful French language she started learning at age 3. Yes, she will do so, even if the entire planet, including her birth country, starts writing and speaking French like this.
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I still think the blame shouldn’t go just to governments or a few targets. But yes, the new language used is ugly and could have been expressed differently.