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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:31:53 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>blog!</title><subtitle>blog!</subtitle><id>http://jyharris.tv/blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://jyharris.tv/blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://jyharris.tv/blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-01-03T07:08:51Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>RUDE ANGLOPHONES!</title><id>http://jyharris.tv/blog/2012/1/2/rude-anglophones.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://jyharris.tv/blog/2012/1/2/rude-anglophones.html"/><author><name>Jy Harris</name></author><published>2012-01-03T02:15:19Z</published><updated>2012-01-03T02:15:19Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span class="full-image-float-left ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://jyharris.tv/storage/jysmalllogo.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1325645201027" alt="" /></span></span>In Canada, our home and (originally and still technically) native land, we have TWO official languages: English and French.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Most of us speak English.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Many of us speak French.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Not many of us speak both. Most of those who do live in Quebec.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The rest of Canada is littered with Anglophones who are considerably embarrassed that we don't know how to say much more than a handful of words in our 'other' official language. How do we express said embarrassment? Any time someone we know mentions going anywhere or doing anything French, we self-conciously blurt out ALL of our limited French vocabulary in one jokey run-on sentence.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Oh, you're going to Montreal, eh? Well well! <em>Je m'appelle c'est pommes de terres dans la toilette de mon bibliotheque!</em>...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...Right! Right? Ha... ha (gulp)."</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For some shameful reason, this seems to be a purely Anglophonic trait. Not once have I heard of a Francophone being such a dick in reverse:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="fr"><span class="hps">De voyager &agrave;</span> <span class="hps">Toronto? Oh la la! <em>My potato has a cow toilet library! Free Horse hair on top of many cake birds? What is the time of my name?!</em>...</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span class="short_text" lang="fr"><span class="hps">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...Vrai! Vrai? Tee... hee (le gulp)."</span></span></p>
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