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Kate 19:58 on 2020-01-27 Permalink Reply  

• Dhomas 20:15 on 2020-01-27 Permalink

  Mathieu Bock-Côté is a catastrophe. I’m not even sure I want to read that article.

• Jack 21:17 on 2020-01-27 Permalink

  Even I couldn’t read it. The guy he interviewed is also freaking out about that other English speaking bastion…Longueuil.
  https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/566798/la-west-islandisation-de-longueuil

• John B 21:30 on 2020-01-27 Permalink

  I’ll admit to giving up about halfway through, but…

  Pour assurer la stabilité du poids relatif à long terme des francophones au Québec, au moins deux conditions seraient requises : 1) que les transferts linguistiques des immigrants aillent à 90% environ vers le français et 2) que les francophones n’effectuent pas de transferts nets vers l’anglais.

  Ces chiffres sent la bécosse. Je me demande dans quel trou il les ai trouvé.

  In that section he’s talking about how 55% of allophones switching to French as a preferred language won’t be enough to keep growing the use of French. I’m not sure what he’s talking about, but show me an investment with a 5% payoff every year and I’ll take it every day.

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  For fun, I Googled “MBC Graph”

  Enjoy:

• John B 21:33 on 2020-01-27 Permalink

  I guess images get eaten by the blog, that’s probably for the best. It was a down-and-to-the-right chart of some cryptocurrency with the symbol MBC.

• Kevin 00:04 on 2020-01-28 Permalink

  The French-descended people, not the language. But that kind of sloppiness is typical of MBC and his followers.

• mare 01:42 on 2020-01-28 Permalink

  I love the graphs, with a resolution of a few percentile points between top and bottom. The margin of error in these polls is probably bigger than that.