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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: can.general
- Subject: Re: Legalized Discrimination in Quebec
- Message-ID: <73602840DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:24:04 EST
- References: <1992Dec15.211830.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Dec16.093540.24784@spxtech.qc.ca> <1992Dec16.123819.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Dec16.205632.14087@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Reply-To: marc@tanda.isis.org
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- Organization: Thibault & Friends
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- In article <1992Dec16.205632.14087@cc.umontreal.ca>
- (Roux Claude) writes:
-
- > Je n'accepterai les remarques insultantes sur le manque d'ouverture des
- > Quebecois que lorsque ces remarques auront ete redigees dans ma langue, me
- > prouvant ainsi que la personne a pu avoir un contact direct, personnel avec
- > la societe dont il parle et non une image deforme transmise par la rumeur
-
- Nice thought, if it makes you feel a shade more righteous. You
- talk like my uncle who lives in Chicoutimi. He carries his
- dreams like an old wino with an wrinkled paper bag, afraid to
- open it and face the empty bottle inside. The irony in your
- plainte is that the "lingua franca" of the internet is
- English. The "lingua franca" of just about everything is
- English.
-
- That's why, even though my milk-tongue is French and I was
- brought up Quebecois, I'm happy I got my family out in '68. We
- not only missed all the juvenile crap, we got to take part in
- the growth of Quebec's greatest gift to Central Canada: Toronto.
-
- BTW: If you find all this banter personally insulting rather
- than overly-broad slurs about Quebecois in general; we have a
- saying that goes "If the shoe fits, make sure le chat hasn't
- left you un p'tit cadeau." :-)
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
-
-