3/10/2009

Montreal People See French Losing Ground

Mathieu Turbide
Le Journal de Montréal
18/02/2009 09h10

La langue française perd du terrain à Montréal, et l'économie se dégrade, constatent une majorité des Montréalais interrogés dans le cadre d'un sondage Léger Marketing-Le Journal de Montréal.
Trois Montréalais sur cinq trouvent que l'état de la langue Française dans leur ville se détériore.

L'opinion des Montréalais rejoint donc les conclusions de plusieurs rapports -et d'une récente enquête du Journal de Montréal -qui démontrent que l'utilisation du français recule à Montréal, particulièrement dans les commerces du centre-ville.

Le gouvernement a lancé plus tôt cet hiver une vaste campagne pour promouvoir l'usage du français dans les commerces montréalais.

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6 comments:

Edward J. Cunningham said...
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Edward J. Cunningham said...

I deleted the last comment not because I wrote anything offensive but because I posted a link wrong. Here is the corrected post.
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The following link has nothing to do with either the French or English language, but I thought you might be interested in it:

France returns to NATO

Edward J. Cunningham said...

One more thing. Some people will dispute the part about Canadian soldiers necessarily belonging to the English-speaking world since a good chunk of Canada (bigger then than now) speaks French. Well, Quebec voted against overseas conscription so I believe most of the Canadians who died in Normandy were English-speaking.

Canada and World War II

Why was Quebec angry about conscription in World War 2?

Edward J. Cunningham said...

One last comment. Liberation from the Germans by American, British, and other allied forces is not France's "darkest hour." Nor is the anti-Americanism of Charles de Gaulle's presidency. I would say France's darkest hour is that under the Vichi regime, the French volunteered to round up Jews for the Gestapo. The Germans had a much tougher time doing the same thing in Denmark.

Anonymous said...

"La langue française perd du terrain à Montréal, et l'économie se dégrade":

2 phénomènes intercorrélés.
L'anglais est langue mondiale, on le sait depuis longtemps, mais il devient toujours plus clairement sumbole de tiers-mondisation.

Unfrench Frenchman said...

"L'anglais est langue mondiale, on le sait depuis longtemps, mais il devient toujours plus clairement sumbole de tiers-mondisation."

Yeah, like in Centrafrique, Haiti, Niger, Mali, Congo or Tchad to name but a few countries. All places ravaged by the scourge of English I suppose.