[lbo-talk] Quebec separatism

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 08:55:21 PDT 2005


When I visited Quebec (in 1973), I just happened to meet a young man from France. He pointed out that a lot of the Quebecois language was somewhat medieval: the Qs use the word "breuvage" to mean beverage, whereas in the Mother Country, it means a beverage for farm animals.

-- Jim Devine "Blessed are the pizza-makers."



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