Interesting piece Sunday in La Presse on why admitting to a “diagnosis” as highly intelligent causes other people to react badly. Gee, I wonder why.
Also, I had no idea you could ask for a diagnosis of this particular divergence. What treatment exists to chivvy these poor brainodivergents back to the norm?
Le Devoir tells us about the store that will replace Archambault on Ste‑Catherine at Berri.
It’s funny that so few people know the French word for dreadlocks that Le Devoir uses the English word without even mentioning the French one, though they do italicize it.
Le Devoir is not usually sloppy with their language. I’ve looked around and can’t find a French translation for “dreadlocks” – Google Translate just says “dreadlocks” and the Wiktionary doesn’t offer one either. What would you say it is, Nicholas?
tresses rastas according to Google. So disappointing that Le Devoir has decided to sell out to les anglais and destroy the French language and culture in such a way. Lol
Surprised it’s not rastaouais, sounds like an anglicism to me.
I just finished reading a book about Haile Selassie (King of Kings) and the story of Rastafarianism is fascinating.
The OQLF maintains a rather useful official French/French-English dictionary for Quebec: Vitrine Linguistique (formerly Le Grand Dictionnaire). You can search in English or French, and dreadlocks is in there, with its approved termes privilégiés and its termes déconseillés. I had never heard of these terms until I searched for them today, but I’m not a francophone writer or editor for Le Devoir. Maybe the OQLF needs to hold a training session at Le Devoir HQ, levy some fines, etc. (conveniently right next to the Archambault building!).
VL/LGD is part of my go-to translation process, with going to the Wikipedia page for a thing and clicking to see it in other languages as another top choice. Linguee is also a great tool too, showing you actual human translations by taking documents, often from official sources like the UN, published in two languages and comparing them, and you can see all the examples in-text with links to the source. Linguee is a tool of DeepL, which will automatically translate text using that database.
(Also, it seems the Montreal OQLF office is in a Square Victoria office building and not the old Beaux-Arts school on St Urbain at Sherbooke. Can’t find anything about it moving, but the old building is still owned by the province. Anyone know why it left, and what’s going on there now?)
The federal government’s “Termimum Plus” site is also useful for highly technical language.
The city has dropped Amazon from its list of suppliers.
I’d be interested to see how far reaching this is. Is this Amazon, the supplier of physical goods (owns, paper, electronics, etc.) from Amazon.ca? Or Amazon the cloud provider where you would get things like AWS? I truly hope it’s both. We also have a really good local option in Keepsec (https://www.keepsec.ca/). They’re based right here in Montreal. I’d love to see the city be their customer and even invest in bolstering their service offerings. They’re a young company, but already offer a lot of what the big players do.
I’ve set up a few simple websites for people over the years, and directed a periodic backup at AWS mostly so that if they screwed something up and came back to me in a panic, I could pull a rabbit out of a hat for them. My monthly AWS bill is around 12 cents. I hesitate to mess with this, but ethically, I suppose I probably should…
Toula Drimonis writes in The Walrus about Montreal’s struggle with exorbitant rents.
Le Devoir met with two Montreal residents with severe disabilities to find out what it’s like for them to simply get around town.
Interesting link. Thank you.
CTV reports that some fans booed the U.S. anthem at Saturday night’s hockey game. The Gazette says people didn’t boo.
Gazette: “with only a small smattering of boos during Cherylyn Toca’s singing of the Star Spangled Banner — mostly coming from the upper deck.”
I don’t think I’d be able to resist booing, but then I think we ought to completely eradicate this weird tribal singing of anthems at sports matches. Maybe, just maybe, they could still play instrumental versions at the Olympics, where athletes have to represent a country, but I don’t see why there has to be an anthem when two NHL teams square off.
Someone explained to me here that one of the main reasons for sustaining the singing is that armed forces have connections with teams (viz, the flyovers by Air Force planes before some CFL games), but that seems weak to me. I don’t know of any link between the Armed Forces and the NHL.
Football loves its military crap, the NFL is even worse – but the NHL, yeah. Seems weird, especially since teams are rarely made up of even one local anymore. Last Montreal NHL players I see according to stats are James Malatesta, drafted by Columbus, and Zach L’Hereux drafted by Nashville, both in ’21.
FIFA actually has its own FIFA Anthem, maybe the NHL should get one too. But don’t worry, Kate, you’ll get cancelled before you even say we shouldn’t hold our hand over our heart as we look to the flag during the anthem.
NHL games in the US often have a military colour guard carrying the flags during the anthem, and a few vets/service people brought out so they can be applauded. I think the English Canadian NHL teams do a watered down version, first responders not necessarily military, but I haven’t watched enough games recently to say with certainty. Maybe that’s an MA thesis topic for someone!
It’s just the inertia of tradition.
Anyway, on Saturday at least the Canadiens had their PA announcer ask the fans not to boo the American anthem just before introducing the singer. I gather most fans listened. I think if Trump had not backed down, the chorus of boos would have been deafening.
Most Canadian NHL teams do have a Canadian Forces night with free tickets to soldiers and their families and activities and displays specifically catering to them. But it’s just one night a year.
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