France
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From: Whitehorse, Yukon
I agree, you guys think France is bad? Quebec is 10x worse.
Chip on their shoulder is an understatement.
Check out this double standard which our ball-lacking politicians agreed to.
Throughout Canada, all sign are bilingual (English & French) because those are Canadas official languages.
However, it is illegal for any business to have a EAnglish sign in the province of Quebec. If you do this, the language polivce are called, and the law breaker is heavily fined.
Yes sir! When a Quebecewr is outside his province, he can still read the highway signs in French, but when I go through Quebec, the same rules don't apply. It pisses me off to no end all the crying and belly-aching the quebecers do to "preserve" their culture.
Just to clarify, I have nothing against French Canadians, but if you are a hardcore Quebecois seperatist, then I wish you a slow, very agonizing painful death.
All the seperatists should move to their mother land in France where they can have a good old fashioned cirlce jerk.
Habibi
Chip on their shoulder is an understatement.
Check out this double standard which our ball-lacking politicians agreed to.
Throughout Canada, all sign are bilingual (English & French) because those are Canadas official languages.
However, it is illegal for any business to have a EAnglish sign in the province of Quebec. If you do this, the language polivce are called, and the law breaker is heavily fined.
Yes sir! When a Quebecewr is outside his province, he can still read the highway signs in French, but when I go through Quebec, the same rules don't apply. It pisses me off to no end all the crying and belly-aching the quebecers do to "preserve" their culture.
Just to clarify, I have nothing against French Canadians, but if you are a hardcore Quebecois seperatist, then I wish you a slow, very agonizing painful death.
All the seperatists should move to their mother land in France where they can have a good old fashioned cirlce jerk.
Habibi
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Main Entry: mail
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English male, from Old French , of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German malaha bag
Date: 13th century
1 chiefly Scottish : BAG, WALLET
2 a : something sent or carried in the postal system b : a conveyance that transports mail c : messages sent electronically to an individual (as through a computer system)
3 : a nation's postal system -- often used in plural
ehem, it's funny the french are trying to change a word that was originally French.
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English male, from Old French , of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German malaha bag
Date: 13th century
1 chiefly Scottish : BAG, WALLET
2 a : something sent or carried in the postal system b : a conveyance that transports mail c : messages sent electronically to an individual (as through a computer system)
3 : a nation's postal system -- often used in plural
ehem, it's funny the french are trying to change a word that was originally French.
All I have to say is "Bonjur Le France'" 
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Hey if this is what they have to do to protect their language and culture let them do it. Regardless of how annoying the French are and how much the hate the American way of life.
Like I said before, no one wants to have another language or culture forced down their throats in an effort to replace what they currently have.
And 01XLT... half of the computer stuff you listed probably came from Germany or Japan.
In French mail is actually "poste"
Like I said before, no one wants to have another language or culture forced down their throats in an effort to replace what they currently have.
And 01XLT... half of the computer stuff you listed probably came from Germany or Japan.
In French mail is actually "poste"
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Originally posted by J-150
Hey if this is what they have to do to protect their language and culture let them do it. Regardless of how annoying the French are and how much the hate the American way of life.
Like I said before, no one wants to have another language or culture forced down their throats in an effort to replace what they currently have.
And 01XLT... half of the computer stuff you listed probably came from Germany or Japan.
In French mail is actually "poste"
Hey if this is what they have to do to protect their language and culture let them do it. Regardless of how annoying the French are and how much the hate the American way of life.
Like I said before, no one wants to have another language or culture forced down their throats in an effort to replace what they currently have.
And 01XLT... half of the computer stuff you listed probably came from Germany or Japan.
In French mail is actually "poste"
As far as the computer stuff from Germany or Japan, could be but I do know the internet came from America, Algore invented it...
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at least Al Gore will be known for something in 20 years...
So lets just sum up....
the French don't like the Americans or anything to do with American culture (and sorry Jerry Lewis doesnt count)
After 2 world wars, they still thumb their noses at you.
so let them change the name of it... and while the rest of the world calls it email, they will look like the stuck-up, arrogant people they are (a stereotype yes, but very very hard to disprove)
Hey, don't get me wrong, I think they are 100% in the wrong for thumbing their noses at a nation that lost sons, brothers and fathers to liberate it.
So lets just sum up....
the French don't like the Americans or anything to do with American culture (and sorry Jerry Lewis doesnt count)
After 2 world wars, they still thumb their noses at you.
so let them change the name of it... and while the rest of the world calls it email, they will look like the stuck-up, arrogant people they are (a stereotype yes, but very very hard to disprove)
Hey, don't get me wrong, I think they are 100% in the wrong for thumbing their noses at a nation that lost sons, brothers and fathers to liberate it.
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Al Gore probably thinks the Rand group make vacuum cleaners...
as I think more about this thread... the more I start to think of the irony of it all...
France renaming "email" which is here as a result of the Internet which as you all know is a military tool.
So the French have an issue with the name of an American military tool.
And Im starting to think... we dont want an American military tool invading us and stealing our culture. I guess if the Internet was German that would be okay for it to come into France like a steamroller (again.)
Its just weird.
as I think more about this thread... the more I start to think of the irony of it all...
France renaming "email" which is here as a result of the Internet which as you all know is a military tool.
So the French have an issue with the name of an American military tool.
And Im starting to think... we dont want an American military tool invading us and stealing our culture. I guess if the Internet was German that would be okay for it to come into France like a steamroller (again.)
Its just weird.
Last edited by J-150; Jul 21, 2003 at 05:33 PM.
