Re: Estuary English - how serious?

Arne H. Wilstrup <detfaarduejatvide@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some nations (e.g. Iceland and Quebeck in Candada) are so
> afraid of loosing the power of the language that they had
> forbidden or simply give jail to people who do not consider
> the Icelandic or the French language in the two countries
> mentioned above.
>
> In Canada people can go to jail if they not in newpapers and
> in signs at the stores accept that French is equal to
> English and if the shops are not translating English names
> into French, they will be fined.

I remember when that big campaign occurred in Quebec -- was it around
1990? -- but somehow I got the impression that it had relaxed. Does
anyone know if that policy is enforced as rigidly as it was then? Did
the French speakers "win," driving out many English speakers out of the
cities and cowing the others into compliance?

--
Best -- Donna Richoux
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