Trump, French and Canada
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President Donald Trump's announcement Tuesday morning that he is giving "serious consideration" to renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" mirrors his move to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America early in his second term.
On June 1, 2022, Bill 96 received assent and officially became law. As a result, Québec’s Charter of the French Language (the “Charter”) underwent its first major transformation since it was passed in 1977. Highlighted below are the major business ...
The French language was introduced into Senegal through colonisation. According to Papa Alioune Ndao, professor of linguistics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar: French was taught in Senegal as a mother tongue, as France taught its own children.
“My homeland is the French language,” author Albert Camus once wrote—and many French people would agree. That’s why any attempt at changing the language is often met with suspicion. So the uproar was almost instantaneous when, this fall, the first ...