{"id":4508,"date":"2020-05-25T21:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2020-05-25T23:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:51:13","slug":"as-the-mayor-of-canadas-most-infected-city-instead-of-fighting-the-coronavirus-ms-valerie-plante-attacks-the-supremacy-of-the-masculine-over-the-feminine-in-the-french-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/25\/as-the-mayor-of-canadas-most-infected-city-instead-of-fighting-the-coronavirus-ms-valerie-plante-attacks-the-supremacy-of-the-masculine-over-the-feminine-in-the-french-language\/","title":{"rendered":"As the Mayor of Canada\u2019s most infected city, instead of fighting the coronavirus, Ms. Val\u00e9rie Plante \u201cattacks the supremacy of the masculine over the feminine in the French language\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First, here is a Radio-Canada<\/em> (French CBC) article in French, followed by its translation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/1705455\/epicene-montreal-suprematie-masculin-feminin-francais<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here is a quick translation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fici.radio-canada.ca%2Fnouvelle%2F1705455%2Fepicene-montreal-suprematie-masculin-feminin-francais<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who do not know Ms. Val\u00e9rie Plante, she\nalways seems to follow the latest fashions of the UN. For instance, its new recommendations\/rules\nfor languages, supposedly meant to make our world more \u201cinclusive\u201d and more equal,\netc. Earlier, she offered the key of Montreal to Greta Thunberg. She is also a\nglobalist in her mindset, just like our PM. However, we can give her the credit\nof having been wiser than him at the very beginning of the pandemic. Indeed,\nshe understood faster the dangerous times ahead. In addition to collaborating with\nMr. Legault, she did not hesitate to send her own public health staff to the\nairport when our PM was stubbornly still reluctant to close the borders (just\nlike the Liberal government of Nova Scotia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Ms. Plante is the mayor of a large and populated\nmetropolis, which logically has a different geo-ethno-socio-health reality\/needs\nthan the rest of the more semi-rural parts of the province. We all know that.\nHowever, she is also too much into her globalist mindset that she seems to \u201cforget\u201d\nsometimes that Montreal is still part of Qu\u00e9bec. Specifically, she completely forgot\nabout Bill 101 (French being the official language of her province). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give you a meaningful example, she delivered her first speech as a Mayor\u2026 in English. No single word in French (her mother tongue!). As a Francophile (+ phone), it is shocking for Bambi. Imagine how this must have offended Qu\u00e9beckers. To justify this political mistake after the fact, she reported not realizing which language came out of her mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi can partly understand the above (if true). She\nherself speaks four languages (likely all badly!). When she is either jet-lagged\nor too sleepy, she finds herself speaking the wrong language with the wrong\nperson. However, Bambi is not a Mayor. Thus, her mistake does not affect populations\u2026\njust her spouse or close ones who may laugh at her ?.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back to globalization as a political agenda or\nideology, there is a limit to it: It is called self-knowledge or self-respect.\nKnowing one\u2019s root and identity (or chore part of all the identities that shape\nus to make us whom we are) makes us better prepared to reach out to other\ncivilizations and humans (our brothers and sisters from the global village).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How ironic that it is the same Ms. Plante who \u201cforgot\u201d\nto speak in French in her first official talk as a Mayor is the politician who \u201cintends\nto have a regulation adopted to train elected officials and employees in “gender-neutral\n(or epicene) communication”, as quickly as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One must keep in mind here the following: Each language\nis unique. Each language has its beauty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to the English language, French is more defined\nin terms of its grammatical rules (gender, etc.) that have been around for centuries.\nFor instance, in addition to words specific to this language, grammatically\nspeaking, the masculine includes the feminine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another example is the charming German language, which\nincludes the masculine, feminine, and neutral (grammatically speaking). This\nhas nothing to do with any new fashion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can even think of the beautiful Arabic language, which has a beautiful term, \u201cEl Insan\u201d, which is neither a male nor a female (likely both). Perhaps \u201chuman kind\u201d (or would that be \u201cpeoplekind\u201d?) would be the closest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back to Ms. Plante\u2019s regulations, she intends\nto spend public money, in difficult economic times, on the immediate training\nof Montreal public servants. Is this really the top priority now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Ms. Plante a bit too \u201cilluminated\u201d or is she just flirting with a certain minority of the electorate who are so much into political correctness? The UN lately came up with such language, as reported above. How odd to see an international organization so much into political correctness, even in the middle of a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a conclusion to this post, Bambi would like to echo\nthe comment of one reader, Ms. Marianne Longfield:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the French language. Thus, it saddens me to see our wonderful language abused like that by people who invent a convoluted “political correctness”, that is sometimes unreadable, sometimes inaudible, depending on whether we read or listen to their speech. Their message becomes incomprehensible because they keep adding so many useless words or deleting useful words. We reach the end of the sentence by wondering “what exactly did they say?” [“J’adore la langue fran\u00e7aise, et \u00e7a me d\u00e9sole de voir notre merveilleuse langue ainsi malmen\u00e9e par des gens qui inventent un “politiquement correct” alambiqu\u00e9 et tant\u00f4t illisible, tant\u00f4t inaudible, selon qu’on lit ou qu’on \u00e9coute leur discours, lequel, \u00e0 force d’ajouter autant de mots inutiles ou de supprimer des mots utiles, en vient \u00e0 rendre le message incompr\u00e9hensible. On arrive en bout de phrase en se demandant “ils ont dit quoi, au juste?”]<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, here is a Radio-Canada (French CBC) article in French, followed by its translation: https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/1705455\/epicene-montreal-suprematie-masculin-feminin-francais And here is a quick translation: https:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fici.radio-canada.ca%2Fnouvelle%2F1705455%2Fepicene-montreal-suprematie-masculin-feminin-francais For those who do not know Ms. Val\u00e9rie Plante, she always seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}