Etiket: language
Our language | Le Devoir
For some time now, the media has been full of articles on French. From all walks of life, language specialists offer us interesting subjects, explanations of how it works, how…
Building on languages already known to acquire a new language
The duty invites you once again to the back roads of university life. A proposal that is both scholarly and intimate, to be picked up all summer long like a…
War in Ukraine, Day 878 | Former MP and Ukrainian Language Defender Assassinated
(Kyiv) A former nationalist MP and ardent defender of the use of the Ukrainian language over Russian, Irina Farion, died after being shot in Lviv, western Ukraine, authorities announced on…
The French language, electronic writing and the vagaries of modernity
The French language has some 1000 years of history and is widely distributed geographically. While we understand, in theory, that the French language cannot remain the same across time and…
What sacrifices would have to be made to save the French language and culture?
Written French is a different language than spoken French. For example, let’s compare the following texts orally: “Un bel homme” and “une belle femme”. We can see that the words…
On an alleged elitism in the French language
The author of a text published in your pages uses in her title the swear word: “elitism”, very fashionable to destroy what one denounces (“The elitism of French spelling”, The…
Firms are preparing for the entry into force on June 1, 2025 of other important parts of the new law on the French language
In a little less than a year, other important pieces of the new French language law are due to come into force for businesses established in Quebec. Although many are…
“Le Devoir”, the beautiful language of our country
Dear Duty, Thanks for the file The beautiful language of our country. Note the presentation of the double page in A4 and A5, under its blue banner in the color…
the International City of the French Language puts the tricolor song in the spotlight
Published on 06/21/2024 4:19 p.m. Update on 06/21/2024 5:40 p.m. Video length: 2 min Exhibition: the International City of the French Language puts the tricolor song in the spotlight Exhibition:…
“The language of hidden things”, Cécile Coulon
There is the son, the mother. Always in italics. And there is the priest, a father, a child. A village called Fond du Puits. Cécile Coulon (A beast in paradise)…
The language of my country
I like the word “parlure” because it evokes the word parole, which reminds me of the little Good Speaking French cards that I collected with my primary school report cards…
The language of experts | The duty
Patrick Moreau (The duty, on June 13) rightly highlights how activists now use the language of experts to promote their beliefs. By being told during the months of the pandemic…
In Hawaii, the revival of the language
Ēwelei’ula Wong has just spent the morning surfing. She’ll eat a bite and soon return to sliding on the white roller of Kewalos, a steep wave that breaks in front…
Indigenous people and language protection
Jean-François Roberge, Minister of the French Language, pushes his zeal perhaps a little too far by refusing certain accommodations to “law 96” to young Indigenous people who want to undertake…
Generative artificial intelligence, this friend who wants to devitalize our language
We now know that a long-practiced profession leads to “cerebral deformation”. Thus, the taxi driver will overdevelop his hippocampus, which stores the mental map of the cities he travels through;…
School and culture must serve to nourish pride in the French language among young Quebecers
Each report from the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) brings with it its share of tremors and forces us to see how maintaining a healthy French language is…
50 years ago, the French language was sanctified by the Quebec state
In 1974, for the first time, French was declared the official language of Quebec. It is Law 22 which gives it this status. This week marks the 50th anniversary of…
Reform of the Charter of the French Language | Judge and party
The expression “judge and jury” is usually a metaphor. But with Judge Dennis Galiatsatos, it should be taken at face value. The magistrate took the initiative to tackle the CAQ…
Translation of judgments into English | A judge torpedoes part of the reform of the French language, Quebec will appeal
A judge of the Court of Quebec torpedoes part of the Legault government’s French language reform in a biting decision. The obligation to translate judgments rendered in English into French…
A judge of the Court of Quebec makes an article of the Charter of the French language criminal
Judge Dennis Galiatsatos of the Court of Quebec persists and signs: despite the provincial government’s attempt to prevent him from rendering judgment, he went ahead and declared an article of…