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07-21-2003, 11:49 AM | #2 |
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I suppose they can try...Not sure if it will work though!
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It's pointless to try. A lot of colloquial French usage shows English influences anyway. To go shopping is "faire le shopping". Ironically enough, I've heard that in France they use more English words than in Quebec.
We use a ton of French words in English, if you think about it.
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shopping is also "faire les achats".
In my opinion, "e-mail" is just one word. go ahead and ban usage of it in the government, but it won't make too much difference. Japanese also has assimilated a ton of English words. I could make a long list, but that'd be boring.
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Greg - I was going to post this. Glad you did.
Anyway - France repeatedly "outlaws" foreign words from polluting the French language. English however takes many words from all different languages and is constanly evolving and growing. A couple of years ago france tried to issue a law saying that any website hosted in France MUST be in French. It could of course have an English translation - but the site must have a full French version. Web providers and website developers were outraged because the majority of the web is in English - and by having the site in English - they get the largest audience. It would cause double the work developing an English version and a French version. I'm not sure if they were ever successful. As for France using more English words than Quebec - I don't think that is the case. ALL techonogy/computer terms have a French translation. France is extremely afraid of their language being "polluted" by outside influences. Also - slang and casual speech is very different than what the "official" language is. Quebec however has laws dictating that English must be less prominately displayed than French. Last year or two - there was a store that was issued a heavy fine because they had English more prominently displayed than French. Talk about xenophobia. As for Quebec - is Quebec part of Canada or part of France? Last time I checked it was part of Canada. I am very glad we don't have the problems with Louisiana like Canada does with Quebec. The US has ONE official language - it prevents division. Canada is basically made up of 12 provinces and terrorities - and Quebec.
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If Quebec were to split from Canada some time in the future, what do you think will happen to eastern Canada? They would be separated from the rest of canada.
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Quebec by the way - wanted to still have it's medical health care part of Canada and they wanted their highways still funded by Canada - as well as a bunch of other current national benefits. They just wanted to have an independent government - but stil share in all the benefits that being part of Canada brings.
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on topic: France is stupid for banning the word e-mail. itll be to hard to do Edit: what wuld they do to the people that use it, arrest them? there arnt enough cells. They could send tickets, then they would probably make a lot of money, but it would be to hard to prove it seeign as the person could easily change tehre web page
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Heh... everything and anything to do with Quebec separation has already been debated on Entmoot.
Mind you, that was before almost any of you were around, but it was rather fierce back then, I tell ya...
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i know this is off topic, but if alberta and BC joined the states, would you move to the Yukon like me
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man if BC joined america i would test it out but then i would robably head down to montreal or somethin
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I think a willingness to accept words from other languages is the strength of English. Not just from obvious languages either - "trek" from Afrikaans, "shampoo" from (I think) Burmese, even "entrepeneur" from some Continental language or other... English has never been static and never should be. Guarding your language's "purity" is a very dubious policy to my mind.
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