Should we redraw Quebec's borders along linguistic lines?

Hoof Hearted

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Quebec chicks are the hottest. But never marry one of them. They expire around the age of 23. That's when the poutine bombs go off...BAM...KER-POW...BANG! Exploding gut, thighs and mile-wide caboose.

By the age of 30 you're left with nothing but 200lbs of wagging finger. Pauline Marois is a prime example.
 

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Another fine example from the table of trolls. Wait till the stupid ones start to contribute.

Quebec chicks are the hottest. But never marry one of them. They expire around the age of 23. That's when the poutine bombs go off...BAM...KER-POW...BANG! Exploding gut, thighs and mile-wide caboose.
Welcome to my Igloo, what should we do for the next 6 months??


Draw the lines according to IQ's.
 

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English is a plastic and fluid laguage, ever changing that is defined by usage. If English speakers invent or borrow a word or expression, it is officially English and not "slang". The experts on the English language such as Oxford University or Merriam-Webster are mere chronicallers who collect new words and expressions, constantly. In 2014, there were 1,025,109 known English words and that number grows every year. We do not have an Academy of English, telling us what is English... how to speak ... what to think. Ironically, the lingua franca of the planet is currently English. French is just too limiting, constricted, controlled to have led to the explosion of creativity of the English speaking world over the last few centuries. French tongues and minds are constrained in an Académie française straight jacket.

You clearly do not know the role of the French Academy. They do not decide new words.
 

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Any trait that unites a large group of different individuals would be selective about who they were friends with would be something that resulted in tension between them. The result is the same no matter what the root cause is.

The UK certainly thinks they are a special group that fits every definition that word can conjurer up.

Did you know the guy in the turbine acted as her chair when she sat down? If it was skin on skin it meant it was cold outside, . . or whatever.
 

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It's interesting. We English speakers are used to hearing our language spoken by poeple from all over he World. In a big city like Vancouver, Toronto, New York, we are quite likely to hear it spoken badly, perhaps very badly, most of the time by non-native speakers. We also shorten and truncate the language amongst ourselves to the point that one word spoken can convey a whole sentence' worth of information, if taken in the right context.

French is nothing like that. Make a grammatic error and they look at you as if you are a Martian babbling pure gibberish. Conjugate a verb incorrectly and you get a blank stare, as if the word came out of the mouth on your second head. Francophones are very intolerant of poorly spoken French. I guess that they hear so little of it spoken by outsiders as the world is not beating a path to their doorstep to learn French. Perhaps, the intolerance is why the world is not beating a path to their doorstep.
 
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Queb

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French is nothing like that. Make a grammatic error and they look at you as if you are a Martian babbling pure gibberish. Conjugate a verb incorrectly and you get a blank stare, as if the word came out of the mouth on your second head. Francophones are very intolerant of poorly spoken French. I guess that they hear so little of it spoken by outsiders as the world is not beating a path to their doorstep to learn French. Perhaps, the intolerance is why the world is not beating a path to their doorstep.

hahahahaha

that's funny

You do not seriously think what you say? :)
 

Curious Cdn

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hahahahaha

that's funny

You do not seriously think what you say? :)

Yup. lived there....know you better than you know your own. The French language is a railroad and you dare not leave the tracks.

We speak jazz.
 

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Oh no. i don't believe in that possibility.

By the way, Quebecers never vote to be federated under canada... and we never vote to give a gift of 30% of our territory to Newfoundland.... But, no I don'y believe that Newfoundland will give it back to us ;-)

Ain't your territory bucko. Belongs to the people that live there. If they want to leave Quebec they are entitled to do so.
 

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Where do you draw the big, squiggly line between english and slang?



I mean that municipality is not a state as a federated state is.

So? You do realise don't you that Norwegian law does provide bilingual services in Norwegian and Swedish in any municipality where a certain percentage of the population speaks the language? If I remember correctly, the government halts bilingual services in a municipality once the Swedish-speaking population drops to below 10% but introduces such a services once it rises to above 20%. This is based on municipality, not on state. And that makes sense since natural human conglomerations usually revolve around the municipality with regards to local infrastructure, zoning rules, etc. The municipality is the natural daily habitat of most people. For example, I doubt that most residents of la Malbaie have visited Roberval and vice versa. Human nature is such that we reside first in a concrete locality and secondly in a larger more abstract entity such as a satate.
 

Queb

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So? You do realise don't you that Norwegian law does provide bilingual services in Norwegian and Swedish in any municipality where a certain percentage of the population speaks the language? If I remember correctly, the government halts bilingual services in a municipality once the Swedish-speaking population drops to below 10% but introduces such a services once it rises to above 20%. This is based on municipality, not on state. And that makes sense since natural human conglomerations usually revolve around the municipality with regards to local infrastructure, zoning rules, etc. The municipality is the natural daily habitat of most people. For example, I doubt that most residents of la Malbaie have visited Roberval and vice versa. Human nature is such that we reside first in a concrete locality and secondly in a larger more abstract entity such as a satate.

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