How about the fact that people can buy guns in many places in the USA and then bring them to cities without crossing any international border?
You are looking at national averages, which is disingenuous
How so? You can also look at metropolitain average if you prefer, you will also realize that Western European cities are much safer than similarly-sized US cities. Sure, you can probably find some exception by cherry picking Amsterdam (worst in Europe) and Seattle (I guess one of the safest major metro in the US), but on average, there is a big difference, as in 2-5x the murder rate. It's not even close.
You mentioned Detroit... except you didn't actually compare it to any city, in Europe or elsewhere. Amsterdam is the worst city in Europe according to some web sites. So yes, you clearly cherry picked.
I guess you cherry picked Seattle because of it's low murder rate and Amsterdam because of its high? Very dishonest. The point remain that if you compare western Europe to the USA, the murder rate is much higher in the USA. This is also true if you compare cities or regions, as long as you get the whole picture instead of cherry picking.
The rate (murders per 100,000 inhabitants) in the Netherlands is 0.7. No US state come close. Even Washington, a very safe state, has 3. The safest state, tiny rural New Hampshire, has a rate of 1.1, which is 57% higher than the Netherlands.
The most dangerous western European country is Belgium with 1.8. Only 3 US states are safer. As a whole, the USA has a rate of 3.9.
pretty sure they could just stop producing new documents in English (or any other language) without creating any mess. In fact, the more languages they have to support, the bigger the mess.
I understand your point of view perfectly. I don't care if you hate the culture of a race or a country or an ethnicity, I consider them all to be racism. Just because you have a very narrow definition of racism doesn't mean it's the only definition.
why would that stay if English is no longer an official language of any country within the union? They could replace English with Italian or Spanish at this point...
I meant everything is translated in official languages of their members country (obviously not all languages of the world), which English no longer will be.
It does matter because EU institutions work in official languages only. Everything is translated in all languages. So if Ireland or Malta (or some other country) don't change their official language, English will loose its official status within the EU.
I guess you failed English coprehension, as all of those links provide plenty of support for French-only stuff.
No they don't. Other languages can be used freely in just about everything. You are confusing French only with French, with other languages allowed as long as French is also present. A business is free to serve customers in English. As long as they also offer French. Most large corporations do. Bell Canada, Air Canada are based in Quebec and their web sites are in both languages.
So no, you are not FORCED to use French. This is just typical anti Quebec hate.
By the way, Best Buy and Costco are still called Best Buy and Costco.
But all of that are off topic. Again, the original statement was about bringing non-French words to the French language. None of the sources above support that statement.
This is for TV (and radio). This way they can cut the answer in the language of their TV channel. Sometimes the question get asked by a French-speaking journalist first and the same question will be repeated in English. Nothing controversial, or even surprising here.
Who up-voted that ignorant post? Le weekend is still used in France, while Quebec has a translation (la fin de semaine). It's just a matter of regional differences (just like UK vs US English). There is no such thing as laws forbidding the import of words from other languages. French is made of thousands of words from other languages.
You must be the kind of person who says that hating Muslims is not racist since Islam is a religion. Racism is not only about race (what is a race, anyways? a skin color?) but about perceived or real ethnic groups, from which one can't really escape. You can't stop from being middle eastern or French, even whether you consider those to be races or not. When you express your opinion by saying that you bitch against " cultural behavior of French people in general. Quebec and France being the worse", you are being racist against the French-(speaking) ethnic group, in that case particularly France and Quebec.
Now, I won't apologize for saying the truth, even if you consider it to be a personal attack. The problem with racist people is that they get along when nobody tells them they are being racist. That why there are so many out there.
I don't know if it is true but certainly not accurate. The list should at least include the Russians, who probably contributed the most to the defeat of nazi germany.
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They voted for Macron instead of Le Pen, so we might as well make the whole continent pay for that mistake, isn't it?
I guess another alternative is for Facebook to stop doing business, selling advertisement and registering users in Austria.
I guess they would be fine if the content was blocked in Austria but it's probably easier to block it worldwide (for Facebook)
How about the fact that people can buy guns in many places in the USA and then bring them to cities without crossing any international border?
You are looking at national averages, which is disingenuous
How so? You can also look at metropolitain average if you prefer, you will also realize that Western European cities are much safer than similarly-sized US cities. Sure, you can probably find some exception by cherry picking Amsterdam (worst in Europe) and Seattle (I guess one of the safest major metro in the US), but on average, there is a big difference, as in 2-5x the murder rate. It's not even close.
You mentioned Detroit... except you didn't actually compare it to any city, in Europe or elsewhere. Amsterdam is the worst city in Europe according to some web sites. So yes, you clearly cherry picked.
I guess you cherry picked Seattle because of it's low murder rate and Amsterdam because of its high? Very dishonest.
The point remain that if you compare western Europe to the USA, the murder rate is much higher in the USA. This is also true if you compare cities or regions, as long as you get the whole picture instead of cherry picking.
The rate (murders per 100,000 inhabitants) in the Netherlands is 0.7. No US state come close. Even Washington, a very safe state, has 3. The safest state, tiny rural New Hampshire, has a rate of 1.1, which is 57% higher than the Netherlands.
The most dangerous western European country is Belgium with 1.8. Only 3 US states are safer. As a whole, the USA has a rate of 3.9.
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legislation is already translated into every official language of the EU
pretty sure they could just stop producing new documents in English (or any other language) without creating any mess. In fact, the more languages they have to support, the bigger the mess.
I understand your point of view perfectly. I don't care if you hate the culture of a race or a country or an ethnicity, I consider them all to be racism. Just because you have a very narrow definition of racism doesn't mean it's the only definition.
why would that stay if English is no longer an official language of any country within the union? They could replace English with Italian or Spanish at this point...
40% with strict gun laws. And yet you complain that there are more murders in Chicago because of gun laws?
Europe has even stronger gun laws and almost no murders compared to the US.
I meant everything is translated in official languages of their members country (obviously not all languages of the world), which English no longer will be.
it's still them who "made sure we don't have to speak German"
It does matter because EU institutions work in official languages only. Everything is translated in all languages. So if Ireland or Malta (or some other country) don't change their official language, English will loose its official status within the EU.
I guess you failed English coprehension, as all of those links provide plenty of support for French-only stuff.
No they don't. Other languages can be used freely in just about everything. You are confusing French only with French, with other languages allowed as long as French is also present.
A business is free to serve customers in English. As long as they also offer French. Most large corporations do. Bell Canada, Air Canada are based in Quebec and their web sites are in both languages.
So no, you are not FORCED to use French. This is just typical anti Quebec hate.
By the way, Best Buy and Costco are still called Best Buy and Costco.
But all of that are off topic. Again, the original statement was about bringing non-French words to the French language. None of the sources above support that statement.
This is for TV (and radio). This way they can cut the answer in the language of their TV channel. Sometimes the question get asked by a French-speaking journalist first and the same question will be repeated in English.
Nothing controversial, or even surprising here.
Who up-voted that ignorant post?
Le weekend is still used in France, while Quebec has a translation (la fin de semaine). It's just a matter of regional differences (just like UK vs US English).
There is no such thing as laws forbidding the import of words from other languages. French is made of thousands of words from other languages.
None of that support the original statement, which is that there are laws in France and Quebec against the usage of words from other languages.
You must be the kind of person who says that hating Muslims is not racist since Islam is a religion.
Racism is not only about race (what is a race, anyways? a skin color?) but about perceived or real ethnic groups, from which one can't really escape. You can't stop from being middle eastern or French, even whether you consider those to be races or not.
When you express your opinion by saying that you bitch against " cultural behavior of French people in general. Quebec and France being the worse", you are being racist against the French-(speaking) ethnic group, in that case particularly France and Quebec.
Now, I won't apologize for saying the truth, even if you consider it to be a personal attack. The problem with racist people is that they get along when nobody tells them they are being racist. That why there are so many out there.
This isn't me dumping all French people into one basket.
Yes this is exactly that.
Clearly there are English speaking people who feel the same about French speaking people
If by "feel the same" you meant "racist", then yes, you are the living proof that these people do exist.
no, I'm not...
At lest they (along with the UK) had the courage to stand up when Hitler invaded Poland.
I don't know if it is true but certainly not accurate. The list should at least include the Russians, who probably contributed the most to the defeat of nazi germany.
The guy is from Luxembourg, not France.