Thursday, February 14, 2008
Is it 1984?
According to the Montreal Gazette, Quebec's language police have ordered McKibbons Pub, the site of many after-work, after-exam and after-shopping drinks, to take down antique advertising posters from the inside of the pub. The advertising in question is for Guiness, Palethorpes Pork Pies, and St. James Gate Dublin and is all in English (durr, it's an Irish pub) and as such does not allow for French to be the dominant language inside the pub. Yikes! I wonder who will win this one. I wonder if the language police feel as stupid as we all think they are for doing things like this.
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Amazing. They just can’t seem to learn, and they never seem to grow up.
Actually they are not objecting to the Irish period posters but to all the other posters, such as coming events, and advertising. Also, the menu was in English only, and the staff was not able to serve the clientel in French. Québec is after all a French speaking province. So what's the problem?
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