Hey, #Quebec government! Your objective isn't to promote #French. #France does that. Your objective is to oppress #English.
You're a bunch of gawd-damned, arrogant #Anglophobes!

#qcpoli #CAQ #CAQa #OQLF #Bill101 #Bill96

@MeanwhileinCanada why is this not in French. Lizards demand bilingual warnings !! #oqlf oqlf.gouv.qc.ca

Hello Mastodon! This is Chantal Gagnon, professor of #translation and #translationstudies at #UofM and this is my introduction message. I am a specialist in journalistic translation, political translation and economic translation. I am also a certified translator with #OTTIAQ and a member of the Office québécois de la langue française, #OQLF. My work can be found at
http://chantalgagnon.info/

Bonjour Mastodon! Ici Chantal Gagnon, professeure de #traduction et de #traductologie à #UdeM et voici mon message d'introduction. Je suis une spécialiste de la traduction journalistique, de la traduction politique et de la traduction économique. Je suis également traductrice agréée et présidente du Comité d'officialisation linguistique à #OQLF. On consultera mes travaux sur
http://chantalgagnon.info/

#UdeM #OTTIAQ #linguistiqueettraduction

Ou publicacation? À vous de choisir! #traduction #neologismes #oqlf

Où? Publicacation? À vous de choisir! #traduction #neologismes #oqlf

Ce serait quoi, l’équivalent #français de shitposting? Je propose publicaca #traduction #neologismes #oqlf

@samae @civodul The #OQLF gives « répertoire » as the translation for « directory ».

https://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8393768

#français #informatique
#French #IT

Francophone Quebeckers worry excessively [0] about the future of French. The #OQLF deserves mockery when it over-reaches.

But anglophones will not have their arguments and interests respected unless they can sympathise with the other side of the story.

#polqc

[0] The decline of French as a mother tongue is largely due to immigrants with Arabic, Spanish and Chinese as mother tongues -- none of those will displace French, and their children will largely be francophone Quebeckers.

@gemlog @MMRnmd "Logiciel" is, I think, a better word for French than "program", "application" or "app" are for English.

#français #English
#OQLF

@gemlog @MMRnmd Praise for the #OQLF ! Well, their effort to coin new words *is* good work.

All languages, like other living things, change. But while change is natural and occurs for reasons, it is not the case that all changes are for the better. The purpose of language is to communicate, so does a given change make ideas clearer? Avoid confusion? Preserve our understanding of past writing? Is it consistent with the language? "Courriel", I think, hits the mark.

@gemlog @cypnk Oh, there are intelligent criticisms of #OfficialBilingualism , and there are silly ones like worrying about packaging. But it's generally best to let people express their opinions, rather than keeping them hidden.

I personally have no objection to Chinese signage, though here in #Québec that gets people in trouble with the #OQLF from time to time.

#canpol #qcpol