OTTAWA: Linguistic Bigots and the Mayor
Nov. 12th, 2019 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineOn one level, this was an act of intimidation. On another, an act of twisted nostalgia.
On another, it was worse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anti-francophone-flyers-mayors-breakfast-1.5356877
I answer the act with this: Ottawa - since well before European contact and "settlement" - colonization, really - was always functionally multilingual. Not merely bilingual.
And it should always remain so.
On another, it was worse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anti-francophone-flyers-mayors-breakfast-1.5356877
I answer the act with this: Ottawa - since well before European contact and "settlement" - colonization, really - was always functionally multilingual. Not merely bilingual.
And it should always remain so.
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Date: 2019-11-13 01:43 am (UTC)Also that graphic design is the WORST
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Date: 2019-11-13 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-13 06:58 am (UTC)Though, in the UK, the Tories successful used comic Sans to make a political message go viral.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2019/10/they-re-doing-badly-purpose-why-tories-latest-online-ads-look-so-ugly&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwi93sCWzublAhXFSRUIHWrTDe4QFjABegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1pstQgdjltg3L8uVNzZvJh
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Date: 2019-11-13 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-14 05:30 am (UTC)