{"id":24473,"date":"2014-02-27T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24473"},"modified":"2014-02-27T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:32:54","slug":"oqlf-now-monitoring-social-media-for-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/oqlf-now-monitoring-social-media-for-language\/","title":{"rendered":"OQLF now monitoring social media for language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not coarse language &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2014\/02\/26\/quebecs_language_watchdog_targets_stores_use_of_english_on_facebook.html\" target=\"_blank\">the English language<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The agency in charge of enforcing the primacy of the French language in Quebec apparently has a new target \u2014 social media.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Cooper, the owner of a small retail boutique in Chelsea, Que., has been notified by the language agency that if she doesn\u2019t translate the shop\u2019s <em>Facebook<\/em> page into French, she will face an injunction that will carry consequences such as a fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, to me, <em>Facebook<\/em> has nothing to do with Quebec,\u201d said Cooper, who uses the social media site to inform customers of new products in her boutique north of Ottawa. The shop \u2014 Delilah in the Parc \u2014 has an all-bilingual staff of fewer than 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to mix it up, but I\u2019m not going to do every post half in French, half in English. I think that that defeats the whole purpose of <em>Facebook<\/em>,\u201d said Cooper, who has requested the agency send her their demands in English.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper\u2019s case represents a new frontier for the language agency, the <em>Office qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la langue fran\u00e7aise<\/em> (OQLF). The agency says probes of social media complaints, which started only recently, are \u201cnot frequent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not coarse language &#8230; the English language: The agency in charge of enforcing the primacy of the French language in Quebec apparently has a new target \u2014 social media. Eva Cooper, the owner of a small retail boutique in Chelsea, Que., has been notified by the language agency that if she doesn\u2019t translate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,28],"tags":[400,113,661,593],"class_list":["post-24473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-media","tag-language","tag-quebec","tag-regulation","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6mJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24474,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473\/revisions\/24474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}