Just Another Hang-Out: Because Unilateral Decisions Matter

[Raype]

Yeah, our teacher always used to tell us that in France they go to great efforts to preserve the French-ness of the language. So instead of borrowing an English word, they'll make up one in French. I guess when it's a language that was borrowed from another country and culture to begin with, people are less picky about that? Interesting.

Aye, I hink there's a few wee similarities with oor dialect tae~ Becaus aw thae Scots went on up tae Canada in yon Highland Clearances an' that.

Oh no, they're still super protective of the language and are doing similar things to try to preserve their overly flowery way of saying things. The difference is, the average french Canadian doesn't care (especially among the youth). Throw in the fact that most of them wind up speaking English pretty fluently and you've got a recipe for linguistic disaster. Which is why you get the occasional francophone going on and on about how they need to "enforce french only schools" and "require signage to use FRENCH ONLY language, or at least formal french first and more prominently". And various other things. I guess similar things happened in France. But due to the different structure of their society, they were able to more or less win. Here in Canada it's just a matter of time before we wind up with a lot of people speaking frankenfrench which winds up being a completely different language from European French. They will, of course, blame Ontario for this. Because that's how they roll.

No.

Guess I'll be shaking my own fist then.

you need to get out more.

But it's cold outside. And there's bears out there. And bugs. And this one time I saw a squirrel that looked mad at me for some reason.

Well, it reads "SuperStupidhead" under your name, so I think that should be a clue of some sorts...

(gosh, what are you people turning me into? )

That one is Elmdor's handiwork. Moral of the story, don't make bets with staff.

Give in. Sooner or later we all develop the ability to say something slightly mean. But we all do it because we love.

I know Canada. Ralph sang your hymn in the Simpsons once. It goes like: "Oh, Canada-aaah!".

Yeah, we really need to swap that one out with something more up-tempo. It's kinda hard to get pumped up for a sporting event when it always opens with something that sounds like it came from a church service. And not even one of those cool gospel services.

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I repeat, y u no sense?

I think while you're in Japan you should get one of those maps that has Eurasia on the left and America on the right. That way you can make more sense of things. It'll also serve to remind you of just how stupidly massive the Pacific Ocean is. Something many people don't actually realize.