Re: [OT] Pro-Palestinians in Toronto CELEBRATE Iranian bombs falling on Israel

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:04:13 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

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.