Anglicisms and vulgarity on the radio
A new report finds there are anglicisms and vulgarity on the radio in Quebec. Maybe it’s because this is how people speak?
-
Kate
Reply
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- CE on Projet slams city cleaning operation
- Ian on More deer will have to be culled
- Ian on SMF to slash permit cost for terrasses
- Ian on Notwithstanding…
- R T on Notwithstanding…
- EmilyG on Projet slams city cleaning operation
- EmilyG on Mile End Kicks to open Friday
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Bluesky feed that follows local environment news. Also available on Mastodon.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
Uatu 10:26 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
I’m sure there’ll be a study showing that it’s all the fault of out of province McGill and Concordia students lol
Nicholas 11:14 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
I saw a comment recently that said francophones can use all the anglicismes they want because it’s part of the language and there’s too much to stop, but if anyone else does it needs to be stamped out with full court press condemnation. I think about it often.
Kevin 12:39 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
My favourite so far this year is all the kids in Quebec City screaming three English words when police show up to shut down their rowdiness.
Robert H 14:45 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
But Les Québécois love their anglicisms, especially their profanity, goddammit! Just listen to radio shows and watch TV en français and you will encounter in mainstream programming a few fucks and bullshits, etc. It’s inevitable.
What’s more, many of the measures taken by Leader-sans-peur et son équipe will have the certainely unintended effect of enhancing the desirability of English, lending it the allure of forbidden fruit and rebellion. It’s already hip, cool, sophisticated, and happening among Québécois (The French too!) to drop a bit of English into their speech. French is so boring, so duty-bound, no fun. Soyez branché et parler the English way! You down?
dhomas 16:58 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
I can’t listen to french radio stations in the car. They drop f-bombs like nobody’s business. It’s not a big deal to say “fuck” in French, but to my anglo kids, it’s like the end of the world.
Kate 19:07 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
dhomas… your kids object to f-bombs?
When I was a kid it was our parents who objected to f‑bombs. How times have changed!
Ian 21:44 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
Kids delight in scolding their parents 😉
dhomas 03:58 on 2024-05-16 Permalink
My 3 kids are still pretty young, all under 10 years old. My wife and I never use any profanity in the house when the kids are around. They object to swear words, at least when we’re around. We may have overcorrected, though. They still regularly chide me for using “the ‘S’ word”. To them, that’s the word “stupid”. They do enjoy scolding us, though, as Ian pointed out. 😀
Ian 11:46 on 2024-05-16 Permalink
When I was 10 my Dad, fed up with my swearing, started up a “swear jar” – if one of us swore in the house we would have to pay 25 cents to their jar, which went to the other person at the end of the month. He rescinded this within a week when he was already in for 20 bucks to my 50 cents.
Kate 22:01 on 2024-05-16 Permalink
20 bucks was a fortune to a kid in those days, too.
Ian 07:32 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
It would have been, but he never paid up haha