https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/quebec-lawmakers-shopkeepers-dont-greet-customers-bonjour-hi/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:19:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/quebec-lawmakers-shopkeepers-dont-greet-customers-bonjour-hi/comment-page-1/#comment-347462 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:19:15 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=67697#comment-347462 Has anybody noticed that the same people who get mad when the subject of making English the official language of the US are OK with Quebec doing this?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/quebec-lawmakers-shopkeepers-dont-greet-customers-bonjour-hi/comment-page-1/#comment-347453 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:04:37 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=67697#comment-347453 Just more Gallic snobbery. Saving you the expense of going to Paris to be treated like that.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/quebec-lawmakers-shopkeepers-dont-greet-customers-bonjour-hi/comment-page-1/#comment-347449 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 14:55:03 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=67697#comment-347449 There is an emotional attachment to French, and that’s understandable. Freedom is, of course, more important.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/quebec-lawmakers-shopkeepers-dont-greet-customers-bonjour-hi/comment-page-1/#comment-347446 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:36:22 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=67697#comment-347446 A few years back, I had a Quebec shopkeeper greet me with a “Bonjour.” I don’t speak French and just gave him a nod back, not really looking for a conversation anyway. So he switched languages: “Hola.” I spoke to him in Spanish, not having the time to find out how many languages he would try before he’d admit defeat and go for English.

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