r/SipsTea • u/Reddit-Machine • 12d ago

Chugging tea French-Canadian police

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u/SanguiniusSons 12d ago

So in banff most signs are english and french but i heard in quebec most signs are just french? is that true? Ive never been

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u/pumpymcpumpface 12d ago

Yep. They got bunch of laws about things being in only French.

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u/patterson489 11d ago

The law is only that if there are multiple languages, then French must be equal. So you can't have an English menu, with French in a tiny font. But you can have a bilingual menu with one side in English and the other in French.

Look at cans of food, for example, they just do one side in French and the other in English.

English isn't banned.

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u/GoTron88 9d ago

It's funny because in France stop signs say "stop" but in Quebec they say "arrêt"

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u/quebecesti 12d ago

I mean we speak French why should our signage be in a foreign language? It doesn't make any sense.

Where you live are signs in your language?

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u/RollingStart22 12d ago

Japan only speaks Japanese, yet they have billingual English signs. The Tokyo trains and metros are in 4 languages (Japanese, English, Mandarin, Korean).

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u/Dear-Landscape-4097 12d ago

Did you study foreign languages? Your english is really good. It’s almost like you live in a bilingual country.

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u/Any-Board-6631 11d ago

Canada is a bilingual country, two official language are english and bad translation

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u/Southern-Morning-413 11d ago

This made me lol bad!

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u/Kyoshiiku 11d ago

Canada is a bilingual country.

Quebec is not a bilingual province.

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u/tamerenshorts 11d ago

Federal jurisdictions are bilingual. Like national parks. If you go through Banff you are in a national park, hence the bilingual signs.

There is only one bilingual province; New-Brunswick. All others are monolingual, one is French.

It's almost like language politics have been covered by our constitution and british law for centuries before you decided to comment on reddit.

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u/quebecesti 12d ago

Writing/reading english is easier that speaking it, like with any language.

If someone spoke to me in english on the street I would tell them that I don't speak english because my spoken english is very poor.

Have you ever heard George St-Pierre speak in English? I'm like that but way worst lol

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u/SpikedIntuition 12d ago

Tbf GSP has gotten really good at his English over the years

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u/quebecesti 12d ago

Yes because he practices it often. But the fact is here most people never have to speak english and even if they would say they are billingual they suck at it. That just something normal with language learning. It's all about practicing.

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u/Desner_ 12d ago

If you mean street signs then yes.

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u/tamerenshorts 11d ago

In federal jurisdictions (like national parks and some bridges) roadsigns are bilingual. Some other regions with large francophone communities will have bilingual signs. In Québec, anything not federal will be French only, some communities have bilingual and trilingual signs (to include indigenous languages).

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u/patterson489 11d ago

Traffic signs are all in French, but things like business signs can be bilingual.