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I’m sorry, but this insistence on French translation is annoying. I would bet that there is nobody in Canada today who does not speak English, even if French is their first language.
Just call me a Francophobe.
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It’s ridiculous. I muted the TV and just read the captions.
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I agree with your point. It’s irritating and silly. Pretense.
I haven’t watched yet but will – and will take sandandsea’s suggestion to mute and just read captions.
Trump is everywhere every day, isn’t he? He gets an awful lot done, effectively.
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During the press conference, one of the reporters reminded Trudeau that he should respond both in French and English to her question, and she was a bit snotty about it. That is what prompted my comment.
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That’s exactly what happens in the UN with Ukraine and Russia. The Ukraine revolutionists spoke only in Ukrainian during the sessions and demanded translators even though everyone understood and spoke Russian.
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Well, it’s not exactly French, French either. Even in France they would need subtitles.
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But it’s still more French-French than Cajun-French. Though the Cajuns seemed to have maintained and expanded on the French-French’s abilities to eat things a coyote would reject.
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