I think english is much easier than french, german, latin or mandarin, so it is a convenient language to be lingua franca
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But English itself isn't that easy. It's just that any sort of lingua franca that's imposed rationally as opposed to what most of the people speak is doomed to failure."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
-Joan Robinson
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I find your lack of cynicism disturbing.
The measures are designed to increase the number of Francophones, while at the same time discouraging Anglos and thereby increase the likelyhood of succeeding in the next referendum. No Anglophone will vote Yes in a referendum, so you people have to drive them out.
But you seem to have missed the point that if such minimal measures work, if they let us thrive while remaining within Canada, independance is no longer necessary. It would mean that Canada works. At least, a lot of us would come to that conclusion. By rejecting all such measures, you're basically shooting yourself in the foot. So if you had any understanding of realpolitik, and if you really want to keep Canada together, you wouldn't reject those measures so categorically.Last edited by Nostromo; September 21, 2006, 02:14.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing
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No. Many english speakers world wide see assimilation into a global english standard as desirable, and so have no sympathy for attempts to use the state to protect particular cultures
Of course people get all upset when they see a cultural tradition going down the plug.
Note: I don't particulary care which shape this language takes.
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Originally posted by nostromo
I'm fairly cynical, thank you very much. But I don't go to the-US-government-sponsored-9/11 heights of cynicism, which I find too easy. And, like I pointed out earlier, a lot quebecois federalists endorse those measures, or at least think that measures such at these are necessary. A laissez-faire attitude won't do.
But you seem to have missed the point that if such minimal measures work, if they let us thrive while remaining within Canada, independance is no longer necessary. It would mean that Canada works. At least, a lot of us would come to that conclusion. By rejecting all such measures, you're basically shooting yourself in the foot. So if you had any understanding of realpolitik, and if you really want to keep Canada together, you wouldn't reject those measures so categorically."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
-Joan Robinson
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Originally posted by Flip McWho
Language is just a communication function. Theres no intrinsic worth to human language except how well it functions as a communication device.
Of course people get all upset when they see a cultural tradition going down the plug.
Note: I don't particulary care which shape this language takes.Blah
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Originally posted by Flip McWho
Language is just a communication function. Theres no intrinsic worth to human language except how well it functions as a communication device.
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I dont think you can simply resume language to a fonction of communication and says that there is no intrinsic worth to human language. I think it`s overly simple and naive to see this in that way.
Otherway, you need to resume human, as only a machine, who are communicating with others machines.Last edited by CrONoS; September 21, 2006, 12:58.bleh
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Perhaps in the future
You will get to say I told you so when the French Canadians howl about being forced to learn Mandarin by their Chinese overlords.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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Those measures are designed, if not to enhance support for separatism, at the very least to ensure that Quebec is under the control of the Bloc Quebeqois (or whatever they'll call themselves in the future).I don't even know why I bother.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing
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Originally posted by BeBro
Not for you I see, but yeah even lots of Germans having trouble speaking itAlso, I find it utterly impossible to understand Austrians and Bavarians.
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
-Joan Robinson
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Originally posted by Victor Galis
Also, I find it utterly impossible to understand Austrians and Bavarians.Blah
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Originally posted by Victor Galis
Those measures are designed, if not to enhance support for separatism, at the very least to ensure that Quebec is under the control of the Bloc Quebeqois (or whatever they'll call themselves in the future).On the contrary, those measures have hurt the economy of Quebec and driven out a lot of Anglophones from it. So now, instead of having independence votes fail because of a lack of enough French speakers, they're failing because the French speakers are content. It's much easier for them to suddenly become upset again than it would have been without these measures for them to gain such numbers. This strategy fails for the same reason appeasement fails.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.
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