Compliance gone mad

and hey - whats with the shoe fetish ??
why not wetsuits - or rubber gloves??
 
But I think that you understand why we don't want English-only signs in a place where 85% of the population is French. And as Fifty2one said, we are not against biligual signs, but against English-only signs.

The "50% of the size" is not a major problem here, as most of the population would agree with equal size. What we are all against is English-only signs, signs where the French is so small that you cannot read it or signs which are so badly translated that we have less problem with the Mandarin, Arabic or Hebrew version.
 
Newman said:
But I think that you understand why we don't want English-only signs in a place where 85% of the population is French. And as Fifty2one said, we are not against biligual signs, but against English-only signs.

The "50% of the size" is not a major problem here, as most of the population would agree with equal size. What we are all against is English-only signs, signs where the French is so small that you cannot read it or signs which are so badly translated that we have less problem with the Mandarin, Arabic or Hebrew version.
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Actually the only people that seem to REALLY have a major issue with the language signage is the Office de la langue francaise which is the so called Language cops who are passed along the complaints submitted to the Commission de Protection de la Langue Francaise in order to ensure the language laws in Quebec are respected... most people are realistic but there are hard assed radicals on both sides of the debate about language usage...

..if people used common sense there would be a lot of government employees out of a job and a ton of lawyers panhandling on the corner!
 
So, thanks to the extremists for creating jobs. :D
 
Granted ive only been to Ontario and Quebec so im not sure if its a whole country thing, but what does the flashing green light mean on the stop lights?
 
rainman89 said:
Granted ive only been to Ontario and Quebec so im not sure if its a whole country thing, but what does the flashing green light mean on the stop lights?
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It means that the cars facing you see a red light. Therefore, you can make a left turn without problems.
 
Newman said:
It means that the cars facing you see a red light. Therefore, you can make a left turn without problems.
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ah so similar to our turn arrows. got ya!

i thought it meant "GO GO GO!!!"
 
Idjit said:
Me having to pay this bill, that's what's "SNF"!!! ;)
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And THAT is why I love you!

First person to respond to my obscure joke!

Eh...... all the rest o ya can go to pot.... I got me Idjit back.

Pfft
 
TessB said:
And THAT is why I love you!

First person to respond to my obscure joke!

Eh...... all the rest o ya can go to pot.... I got me Idjit back.

Pfft
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That's because the commercial is high-larious! Right up there with "You don't give another man's girlfriend a foot massage, and you don't put her in your 5!"
 
TessB said:
And THAT is why I love you!

First person to respond to my obscure joke!

Eh...... all the rest o ya can go to pot.... I got me Idjit back.

Pfft
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I got it, as that commercial is played about 20 times a night, but did not know if it was intentional. and I did not want to look like a shut in or anything by acknowledging an obscure joke like that :D :cool:
 
TessB said:
And THAT is why I love you!

First person to respond to my obscure joke!

Eh...... all the rest o ya can go to pot.... I got me Idjit back.

Pfft
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Hey i got it! you responded to my joke!
 
Talking of abbreviations - what about this 'textspeak'?:confused: Its awful, and kids today are using it in general writing. I have actually rung the person after receiving a text to get them to explain what they said.

I always use correct grammar in texts, (comma's, colons, brackets etc), in 5 years correct English grammar will be obsolete - or even worse, similar to the pigeon English the Americans write and speak:rolleyes:

Fortunately, kids are told if they use textspeak in an exam they will lose marks for incorrect grammar, so there is a glimmer of hope.

Col
 
ColinEssex said:
Talking of abbreviations - what about this 'textspeak'?:confused: Its awful, and kids today are using it in general writing. I have actually rung the person after receiving a text to get them to explain what they said.

I always use correct grammar in texts, (comma's, colons, brackets etc), in 5 years correct English grammar will be obsolete - or even worse, similar to the pigeon English the Americans write and speak:rolleyes:

Fortunately, kids are told if they use textspeak in an exam they will lose marks for incorrect grammar, so there is a glimmer of hope.

Col
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Unlike me, I speak Porper Enghish
 
ColinEssex said:
Talking of abbreviations - what about this 'textspeak'?:confused: Its awful, and kids today are using it in general writing. I have actually rung the person after receiving a text to get them to explain what they said.

I always use correct grammar in texts, (comma's, colons, brackets etc), in 5 years correct English grammar will be obsolete - or even worse, similar to the pigeon English the Americans write and speak:rolleyes:

Fortunately, kids are told if they use textspeak in an exam they will lose marks for incorrect grammar, so there is a glimmer of hope.

Col
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The puncutation and grammar in your post are abysmal.

Why do you have an apostrophe in "comma's"? Apostrophes are never used to denote plurals. Where is the apostrophe for "its" in your first paragraph? You are changing it is to it's therefore you should have an apostrophe.

When you write "etc" it should be "etc." as you are using an abbreviation.

Your second paragraph is one sentence where as if we are talking about correct grammar you should have a full stop after you close your brackets.

"similar to the pigeon English the Americans write and speak"

Where is your fullstop for this sentence? Also "the Americans write and speak":eek:

You final paragraph should have commas surrounding "in an exam".

If you want to be a grammar nazi you really should learn how to use grammar correctly yourself, and certainly you shouldn't make statements such as "I always use correct grammar" when you blatantly don't.
 
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