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a more formal beehaw introduction thread (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the "how was your week" thread isn't a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples' posts aren't getting lost.

tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don't gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this'll be a good way of getting to know all the people you're now on here with

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[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, the anglophones are learning English to eavesdrop on us! /s

Though that's interesting. For a lot of Quebecers, we expect classes of French taken in the rest of Canada to be kinda useless as most don't seem to be learning much of anything. Definitely cool that you're trying to keep it up!

I assume you're in Nova Scotia or somewhere around that area?

[+] ashen@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We all love 1AM ramble, it's pretty coherent though.

Some of my family origins are Acadian as well in the New Brunswick region (though far enough in the genealogy that I don't know anyone from there). Kinda interesting they use that ethnicity (I'm not really sure what to call it?) in the name of the French school system there. I kinda would've expected government offices to avoid using the term after the huge deportations.

It makes sense that a lot of students don't bother with French outside of Quebec honestly. Unless they want to get into Federal politics or get a job in a federal office, they likely will never need it. It's my understanding there's still some small communities of French people in some provinces though so I guess that explains why there are French school systems, kinda out of obligation because of the law on the official languages of Canada?