Language.
Where would we be without it. Something so important is usually taken as insignificant, without it we're just not human anymore. It reflects attitude, be it power, affiliation etc.
It was nice that someone else also shared my interest in language and decided to do an experiment. Andy Riga of the gazette was in Quebec and decided to see how to see how English is now becoming a more popular language among the French Canadians.
The rules were simple, she was to speak only French to store workers for seven days and see if any of them would reply back in French or switch to English, and boy was she surprised. Most of the store workers would only converse in English even though it was evident by their accents that they were primarily French speaking.
Now that wouldn't make any sense in the old days, why adopt a language your not accustomed to even when spoken to in your primary language?
Has communication become irrelevant?
No, its just the fact that most tourits will come over and will speak english and since the Ms. Rita herself says she has a bit of an anglo* accent the francophones** try to make it easier by reducing the language barrier and therfore increase sales. Its all about the business.
here's a little something to think about haha.
*anglo - person who is natively from an english speaking background.
**francophone - term used for primarily french speaking people.
Where would we be without it. Something so important is usually taken as insignificant, without it we're just not human anymore. It reflects attitude, be it power, affiliation etc.
It was nice that someone else also shared my interest in language and decided to do an experiment. Andy Riga of the gazette was in Quebec and decided to see how to see how English is now becoming a more popular language among the French Canadians.
The rules were simple, she was to speak only French to store workers for seven days and see if any of them would reply back in French or switch to English, and boy was she surprised. Most of the store workers would only converse in English even though it was evident by their accents that they were primarily French speaking.
Now that wouldn't make any sense in the old days, why adopt a language your not accustomed to even when spoken to in your primary language?
Has communication become irrelevant?
No, its just the fact that most tourits will come over and will speak english and since the Ms. Rita herself says she has a bit of an anglo* accent the francophones** try to make it easier by reducing the language barrier and therfore increase sales. Its all about the business.
here's a little something to think about haha.
*anglo - person who is natively from an english speaking background.
**francophone - term used for primarily french speaking people.
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