05 May 2018
23 February 2018
Don Macpherson: A good week for 'indig-nationalism' and anglo bashing
Quebec politicians made fools of themselves over the pronunciation of
the names of "francophone" Olympic hockey players who weren't.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/don-macpherson-a-good-week-for-indig-nationalism-and-anglo-bashing?fbclid=IwAR0BT_lBDcxRFfG7Cpc4CpQHT1k7Cu2eVh8cMnhdUQwXyV-VZHvqcpIEZmM
For Quebec anglos who can still laugh at foolishness over language in our province, this was a good week.
Let’s start with the latest flare-up of what I call “indig-nationalism.”
It started with a story in — where else? — Quebecor’s Le Journal de MontrĂ©al (more on them later) that Hockey Canada had asked public-address announcers at the Pyeongchang Olympics to anglicize the pronunciation of three Canadian players’ names that were apparently French.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/don-macpherson-a-good-week-for-indig-nationalism-and-anglo-bashing?fbclid=IwAR0BT_lBDcxRFfG7Cpc4CpQHT1k7Cu2eVh8cMnhdUQwXyV-VZHvqcpIEZmM
For Quebec anglos who can still laugh at foolishness over language in our province, this was a good week.
Let’s start with the latest flare-up of what I call “indig-nationalism.”
It started with a story in — where else? — Quebecor’s Le Journal de MontrĂ©al (more on them later) that Hockey Canada had asked public-address announcers at the Pyeongchang Olympics to anglicize the pronunciation of three Canadian players’ names that were apparently French.
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