30th September 2003, 5:21 PM
I would just like to spend some time in this ridiculous thread to point out that people in Quebec are mostly are not bilingual, but rather unilingual francophones. The area with the highest bilingual population is the Montreal-Ottawa axis, and two-tonguedness is proeminent amongst Franco-Ontarians and the anglophones of the Montreal suburbs (aka West Island). Basically, Frenchies living in Ontario, and Anglos living in Quebec are more likely to pick up both languages. New Brunswick is also reputed as the only bilingual province in the country, and I suspect a high number of Acadians speak both their native messed-up French as well as English.
Official numbers tell you 43% of all Quebecers claim they are bilingual, but to tell the truth, all the "bilingual" people I've seen outside Montreal speak English about as well as I speak Serbo-Croat.
Official numbers tell you 43% of all Quebecers claim they are bilingual, but to tell the truth, all the "bilingual" people I've seen outside Montreal speak English about as well as I speak Serbo-Croat.
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This is a special car.
Two accelerators... no brakes! Yeeeah!
-- Zodiac Mindwarp / Backseat Education