On the decline of French in Quebec
Taylor C. Noakes, who usually writes in English, takes up the crayon de Molière to comment on the latest panic over the decline of French.
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PatrickC 14:34 on 2020-12-21 Permalink
Good piece!
Meezly 13:58 on 2020-12-22 Permalink
Agree. Interesting he has to defend his name at the end and make a point of saying he’s more French- than English-speaking.
Taylor Noakes 17:24 on 2020-12-22 Permalink
A joke got mangled in the editing… the idea was more to poke fun about who is and isn’t Quebecois, and whether a Francophone with a real bloke name like my own can criticize language policy without assumedly being labelled ‘Anglo’. Unfortunately in the effort to undermine the tribalism it wound up coming across as reinforcing it, which still seems funny to me given the article was written in French.
I wasn’t crazy about using the photo of the Canadian and Quebec flags as a symbolizing the language debate either, but freelancers have surprisingly little control over such things 🙂
Thanks for the post @Kate