Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Pro-Palestinians in Toronto CELEBRATE Iranian bombs falling on Israel Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:24:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20240413220201.00001a3c@example.com> <20240415201158.00002e51@example.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="184b6bcb463d6592481c64503d49abb0"; logging-data="1149223"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1906e/O7RluTkB3XB1IQeSnYyCg+AKOkNM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:3P/VKqQRA32vv/xQiyrkPrLDoEg= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2414 The Horny Goat wrote: >Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:04:13 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman : >>Let's see if Quebec asks to leave Canada and federate with the US. I'll >>bet London wouldn't care at this point. >Likely true though even more likely Washington would never in a >gazillion years accept the Charter of the French Language. The US >would be far more likely to accept Scotland (EU and all) than Quebec. >(sarcasm off) The United States doesn't care. While we expect to conduct business in English, we don't have the concept of national language in law. We already have laws on the books with language translation requirements in government programs if census demography reports a large enough ethnic minority if English isn't the primary language. Quebec representatives in Congress would have to accept that English would be spoken in debate. Quebec wouldn't care. The joke was always they pretended to their fellow Canadians that they spoke no English but spoke English with Americans. We didn't conquer Quebec so they aren't holding a centuries-long grudge against America which didn't even exist at the time. Considering whatever dialect of English Scots speak isn't understandable by anybody else (maybe in Appalachia), no, the English get to keep them in their United Kingdom. They'd all have to learn the Received English dialect as spoken on the Beeb first.