User banned (5 days): inflammatory commentary, insulting an accent and culture
Thank you. Hearing it makes my ears bleed.I'd be more sympathetic if Canadian French wasn't itself already an insult to the French language.
Thank you. Hearing it makes my ears bleed.I'd be more sympathetic if Canadian French wasn't itself already an insult to the French language.
People like this are humiliating to us normie French types
100% petty, and shameful to the culture
True, but Québec is notoriously more pushy in that regard, the most common example being that they translate every non-French movie title (eg. "Endgame", became "Phase Finale" in Québec while it kept its English name in other French-speaking countries)Really? France is notoriously pushy about its language, including quotas about how many French songs must be played on the radio. And rent seeking lawsuits over technicalities aren't foreign to Europe either.
True, but Québec is notoriously worse in that regard, the most common example being that they translate every non-French movie title (eg. "Endgame", became "Phase Finale" in Québec while it kept its English name in other French-speaking countries)
Why not go the US route and not declare an official language. Saves everyone from headaches.
I didn't mean it as a bad thing, it's just that indeed, the way people act regarding their language is different in Canada vs in Europe and that it makes sense for a European to find this "mindblowing". In France, people care less about stopping English words from being used. I edited my post to make it sound less negativeOk, but what's the problem with this? Why is this a bad thing exactly?
Ok, but what's the problem with this? Why is this a bad thing exactly?
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Why are the couple getting paid? I can understand a fine and requirement to fix the situation by Air Canada as it's a massive oversight especially as it's been reported more than once by the same couple.
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People like this are humiliating to us normie French types
100% petty, and shameful to the culture
I recognize Michel Thibodeau from the last time he sued Air Canada in 2011. He's been doing this for years.
As a former Crown corporation, the airline must, as a condition of its 1988 sale, conduct a language survey every 10 years and make French services mandatory at airports and on flights where there is at least a five per cent demand. According to the court, the company has repeatedly failed throughout the years to provide adequate services in French
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They (the whole world) should pick a language that's objectively flexible and useful and portable.
Couple are complete clowns. Even if you think all of their complaints are valid, the fact that they should personally be compensated for it is dumb.The airline also argued it was the manufacturer's decision to engrave "lift" on the seatbelts, the use of which, Air Canada's defense pointed out, is explained in a bilingual video.
No, you should listen to the safety procedures. These engravings were probably signed by CAR (Canadian Aviation Regulations) as deemed airworthy, so no. These idiots should pay 15k for their fetish of semi-nationalism. English is THE language for aviation (at least in Europe and NA, SA, parts of Asia, don't know about Africa), even in Europe, you must know imperial units, which are the units of aviation.. Take your bullshit elsewhere and fly United next time or take a bus and boat. If your desire for French is that high or you are as dumb that you don't know how to disengage the lock on seat belt, go to France.
That the Air Canada should pay, did not know that, thanks! : )Yeah, except Air Canada are required by law to do what they keep getting sued (and losing) for not doing. It's a legal requirement as part of the conditions that allowed the airliner to go from being a crown corporation to a private sector company. If they're too stupid to abide by their legal requirements, they deserve being sued and losing again and again. Maybe this time they would learn and we won't be seeing a headline of how they've lost yet another lawsuit over the same thing.
Couple are complete clowns. Even if you think all of their complaints are valid, the fact that they should personally be compensated for it is dumb.
Fuck off.I'd be more sympathetic if Canadian French wasn't itself already an insult to the French language.
Fine the airline every x period until they change it, just do something else with the money. I don't think a couple should be personally compensated for this.
Fine the airline every x period until they change it, just do something else with the money. I don't think a couple should be personally compensated for this.
I dont think the laws work vice versa for english in Quebec. Have heard alot of horror stories of non french people not being able to register or apply for any government services because documents and customer service are only offered in french.
You don't think a couple should have their time and legal fees paid for, for paying out of pocket asking that the national airline follow national law?Fine the airline every x period until they change it, just do something else with the money. I don't think a couple should be personally compensated for this.
My own personal opinion is that we should be encouraging the use of French in Quebec, and there is nothing wrong with that. But removing services that used to be multilingual and making them only French and policing language just supresses minorities and pisses people off.
I'd be more sympathetic if Canadian French wasn't itself already an insult to the French language.
Is there no agency or other government authority these things can be reported to?Who do you pay to do the inspections and enforcement of all media materials covered by the law? Have the offending company self report? You are skipping right to the penalty phase.
Is there no agency or other government authority these things can be reported to?
I'm just gonna leave this here.it doesn't eliminate a culture altogether but perhaps makes it less rich.
still, the trade off might be worth it. personally, i'd be for a single language world, or at least one with a lingua franca where other languages are learned more for leisure than necessity.
As petty and minor I feel this is it is clear their laws exist to enforce language so they are within their right to pursue this.
This is a funny comment considering Québecois is more conservative about adopting anglicisms when compared to Metropolitan French.I'd be more sympathetic if Canadian French wasn't itself already an insult to the French language.
Wow, did I ever quote the wrong post. My apologies.
Quebec is a French-speaking province in a predominantly anglophone country and dwarved by a giant anglophone neighbor to the south.
Quebec separatism always seemed as much rooted in xenophobia as it is in protecting a culture. Jacques Parizeau blaming "ethnic votes" for losing the 1995 referendum says it all.Quebec runs into these problems a lot, where they whine that they are suppressed minority within greater Canada while suppressing their own minorities that live in Quebec.