Random stuff - the anything else thread
#3046
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Location: SW Ontario
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
The whisky mac will be made with some generic blend or other.
#3048
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Well, once you've accepted the ginger....
This caught my eye:
Quebec lawmakers pass motion calling on store clerks to use 'bonjour' greeting | CTV News
and it seemed a bit dictatorial, so I wondered if 'allo would be acceptable;
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=allo
But why is this necessary (it passed unanimously)? Everyone is going to understand bonjour, hi, bonjour/hi, or allo and probably greetings in a host of other languages. Legislating against advertising to preserve language and cultural identity is one thing, but a long as it's true and civil, how is anything you say a crime?
This caught my eye:
Quebec lawmakers pass motion calling on store clerks to use 'bonjour' greeting | CTV News
and it seemed a bit dictatorial, so I wondered if 'allo would be acceptable;
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=allo
But why is this necessary (it passed unanimously)? Everyone is going to understand bonjour, hi, bonjour/hi, or allo and probably greetings in a host of other languages. Legislating against advertising to preserve language and cultural identity is one thing, but a long as it's true and civil, how is anything you say a crime?
#3049
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
This caught my eye:Quebec lawmakers pass motion calling on store clerks to use 'bonjour' greeting and it seemed a bit dictatorial
But why is this necessary (it passed unanimously)?
But why is this necessary (it passed unanimously)?
What's particularly strange and something I notice from living in bilingual NB is that whenever the anglo nutters (there are a few on the other side too) complain, use of both languages is put across as a positive whereas in Quebec apparently there are "too many speaking both"
#3050
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
But why is this necessary (it passed unanimously)? Everyone is going to understand bonjour, hi, bonjour/hi, or allo and probably greetings in a host of other languages. Legislating against advertising to preserve language and cultural identity is one thing, but a long as it's true and civil, how is anything you say a crime?
Really, it seems like a solution looking for a problem...that really isn't there.
#3051
#3052
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Joined: Sep 2009
Location: Ottineau
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Language politics have been quiet for a while from Quebec but this one really takes the cake. I'm sure many shopkeepers in Montreal and even Gatineau will continue to say both. Most shopkeepers in those areas if they hear the customer speaking first with one another in english will greet the customer(s) in english as it is the natural thing to do in order to get a sale.
Really, it seems like a solution looking for a problem...that really isn't there.
Really, it seems like a solution looking for a problem...that really isn't there.
It would probably a bit different in Trois Rivieres or Chicoutimi.
#3053
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I was alerted to this nonsense by Son who made a rather pithy (bilingual to boot) comment on social media about it, which has stirred up a hornets’ nest.
We’re all a bit abasourdi on the one hand, shrugging and rolling our eyes on the other. And are thinking about incorporating “bonjour-hi” into our regular vocabulary...
#3054
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I was alerted to this nonsense by Son who made a rather pithy (bilingual to boot) comment on social media about it, which has stirred up a hornets’ nest.
We’re all a bit abasourdi on the one hand, shrugging and rolling our eyes on the other. And are thinking about incorporating “bonjour-hi” into our regular vocabulary...
#3055
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I was alerted to this nonsense by Son who made a rather pithy (bilingual to boot) comment on social media about it, which has stirred up a hornets’ nest.
We’re all a bit abasourdi on the one hand, shrugging and rolling our eyes on the other. And are thinking about incorporating “bonjour-hi” into our regular vocabulary...
#3056
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
#3057
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Negroni should be drunk on a sunny afternoon in Milan at about 4.30 pm with a selection of nibbles- salami, proscuitto, parmigiano etc 😋 But rules are meant to be broken 😻
#3059
#3060
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
At my daughter's wedding there was a Negroni stand with these snacks. Is it a particularly Milanese thing?