Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay After Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, the victorious British fully expected that the French of Quebec would quit speaking French and become Anglophones. Eighty years later in 1839, Lord Durham advised that being patient with the backward French Quebeckers would be the best policy, for they would … Continue reading The stubborn refusal of French people to stop speaking French
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Seeing French as a Bridge
Some languages are walls, some are artefacts, a few are bridges. A language used only by one tribe or ethnic group is useful for communication within that group, but it is also a wall that prevents communication with, and assimilation by, another group. Some languages are no longer in daily use but are studied as … Continue reading Seeing French as a Bridge
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