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Whisper app hookup6/20/2023 ![]() They are fighting a mighty dragon, maybe not for their life, but for their sense of identity and distinction. The issue here is about power: minority and majority. When a whole country and its media machine mobilizes against the word “pasta” on a restaurant menu, it’s not really about the word “pasta.” I don’t doubt that the very agents of the Office de la langue Française, who were on the Buonanotte case, are chill enough to just point and nod when ordering food on their vacay to Italy. So let’s clear this aforementioned shit up-starting with five myths about Québec’s language laws. On December 5, 2012, the Parti Québécois introduced Bill 14, a 155-point amendment to Bill 101 that has got so much shit hitting the fan that we can’t see our hands in front of our faces. Early 2013 saw the resurrection of an issue most of us Quebecers wish we could bury alongside Céline Dion’s unsullied youth: The so-called “language wars” of Canada’s outsider province, pitting poor, downtrodden French against brutish, domineering English since 1977. ![]() The public enemy numéro un of the Quebec Premier-and many more before her-is a lot less fun than drugs, obviously.
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