I just need Tolstoy to have a full house :-)
Read my lips: FUCK THE OQLF
Language agency orders boutique to stop English-only Facebook posts
Quebec’s language police have ordered a small business owner in the Gatineau region to stop making posts to Facebook in English.
Eva Cooper is the owner of a fashion boutique named Delilah in the Parc in Chelsea, Quebec, which has a sister store in Ottawa. Both stores have their own Facebook pages, and last week the Office de la langue francaise sent Cooper a letter saying her Quebec store’s page could no longer make posts solely in English.
Cooper said she was shocked her Facebook page was flagged by the language agency., however the OLF does not go searching for violations, but has said repeatedly that it only responds to complaints.
Cooper has asked the OLF to send her the notice again–this time in English–but she has yet to receive it. Cooper said it is time for language laws to be updated in order to make the rules surrounding social media clear, since only people who request to follow her store’s page normally see it.
“Nobody’s paid me a membership fee to be part of my Facebook page,” said Cooper. “It’s up to them to like us, so that’s where I think there’s a bit of a grey zone.” She has been given until March 10 to come up with ways to address the complaint or face a fine.
“I’ve obviously insulted someone and I feel bad about that. But at the end of the day I never thought that the laws extended to Facebook,” said Cooper.
Several weeks ago the OLF ordered a two-man public relations firm Provocateur Communications to create a French version of its website.
At the time a spokesperson for the language agency said article 52 of the Charter of the French language, which states catalogues, brochures and similar publications published by a business must be in French, also applied to websites.
Riiiiiight. Seriously. Someone got butthurt and now the language police are not only going to spend money they don’t have on unimportant shit, all the while making the province look stupid. Again.
Fucking idiots.
My kind of shop
Just noticed this shop in Morges on my way to the bus stop this morning.
Made me laugh
I’m tired, be gentle.
A better shot of Reenie
I think Reenie is feeling a lot better for having gone through the shaving ordeal. She’s back to her old ways of actively DEMANDING fuss and headbutting you if you’re not doing a good job.
Shit like this infuriates me
This is narrow-minded, petty, xenophobic politics at its worst, where it seems that common sense an tolerance is thrown out the window. Infrastructure is collapsing and seems to be held together with duct tape and prayer, health care is suffering, companies are leaving the province because of the stupid, draconian language policies and this is what the fucking morons keep hammering on. Shit like this makes me happy I’m no longer living there to have to deal with it and doesn’t make it attractive for me to want to come back.
Quote of the day
Sad, but true. This is even more shocking in the light of the recent findings about astrology as a science, the whole intelligent design debacle and people not knowing the earth revolves around the sun…
How the tabby got its stripes
It joined the yakuza.
Pussycat love
I have been reenie-raped to within an inch of my life, and now Pavel has taken her place, stretched all along my leg.
We have a Reeniepoodle
Reenie really needed a shave so I took her to a different vet cabinet. They did a really good job. The bad news is that she needs to lose 2 kilos.