{"id":36981,"date":"2018-11-15T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36981"},"modified":"2018-10-25T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:08:58","slug":"qotd-the-french-language-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/15\/qotd-the-french-language-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The French language in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To follow Quebec politics, to read a French-language Quebec newspaper, is to regularly come across trumped-up or bewildering linguistic angst. A new study or census will show French is in pretty good shape, and the language hawks will immediately start slicing and dicing the data to paint the most dire possible picture. The Habs will appoint a captain who doesn\u2019t speak French. A newspaper columnist will hear a friendly \u201c<em>bonjour<\/em>-hi\u201d one too many times shopping in downtown Montreal and blow his stack. While First World parents around the world strive to have their children learn as many languages as possible, you still encounter the odd Quebec voice wondering if francophone children learning English represents an existential threat to their society.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Selley, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/chris-selley-its-becoming-shockingly-clear-that-trudeau-actually-believes-all-the-great-liberal-myths\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Oh no\u2026 It really looks like Justin Trudeau truly, deeply believes all those silly Liberal myths&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To follow Quebec politics, to read a French-language Quebec newspaper, is to regularly come across trumped-up or bewildering linguistic angst. A new study or census will show French is in pretty good shape, and the language hawks will immediately start slicing and dicing the data to paint the most dire possible picture. The Habs will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[6,53,41],"tags":[400,113],"class_list":["post-36981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-language","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Ct","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36981","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=36981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45456,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36981\/revisions\/45456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}