Bret,

In my opinion many Frenchmen (from France) have this attitude, and to me that is exactly what it is - an ATTITUDE!

When I travelled most of France way back in 1977 I encountered snootiness right away. The first merchant I spoke to, in my QUEBEC French which had not a trace of English accent back then, immediately started his bit with "Ahhhh, vous etes Quebecois" with real disdain in his voice. From that time on IN FRANCE I mainly stuck to English.

Jim N

>During my recent trip, I stayed at a B&B in Nova Scotia. The proprieter had entertained a guest from France who had been travelling in Quebec. This person had told him: "The Quebeçois are playing a bad joke on you. They are making you all use French, but they don't even speak proper French." My own French is not good enough to confirm what he said.
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>What do Anglo-Canadians learn in school - the French of France or Quebec? I am guessing that Canadian French is not officially any different and that in, say, Quebec City it doesn't sound nearly as different as it would out in the woods.
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>>I agree with you. The only things I care are:
>>a) Access to every written documents, banners, etc. in french (size doesn't matter)
>>b) Being served in french

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>That's not a silly example and it gets the point across fine and I agree with this. However, if the law simply stated that both french and english must be present then that is fine and I agree and would support that 100%. But the law contains all sorts of silly criteria like; the french has to be first, the letter size of the english can only be 1/3 of the french, and the kicker...it's OK if english is excluded as long as french isn't. This, IMHO, isn't french preservation, it's anti-english by a seperatist government.