Yes, the bastion of pro-Anglo-anti-French rhetoric know as the Bowl-Mat, a bowling alley in St-Eustache, is being forced by Québec courts to change it's name to "Amusement Bowl-Mat".
We can all sleep soundly in our beds tonight knowing that the language police is hard at work trying to eradicate any trace of subversion to the French language and God knows we're all thankful yet another dangerous bowling alley has been penalized. I applaud the language police and the courts for realizing that whenever I saw the name Bowl-Mat, it immediately made me want to forget any trace of my French heritage and pull my kids out of French school. This is exactly why I pay exorbitant taxes to my provincial government. God bless bill 101...
Please note the sarcasm above.
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Thanks God for the Language-Thought Police, without them I would not be able to differentiate between the good old French "amusement" and that lowly Anglo jargon "amusement". The nerve of those English speakers....
I know!
If it wasn't for them making the distinction I might not have caught the difference.... but this will definitely force me to rethink my way of seeing things.
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