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I’m an American living in Los Angeles who has a love of languages. I majored in French and Japanese languages in college in the 70’s. I later obtained nursing and law degrees. I have been working in health care administration for many years. I lived in Montreal for a short time in the 70’s and fell in love with Quebec, it’s language, and it’s people. I discovered a French that was so different from the text book French that I had studied in college.

It was a vibrant and living French that reflected it’s North American environment by a vocabulary rich in anglicisms and expressions that colorfully describe the cold and rugged Canadian climate.  While living in Quebec, I eagerly familiarized myself with the “parlure” québécoise and the research and collection of French Canadian expressions have become my lifelong hobbies. Through the years I have read most of what has been written on the subject and remain as fascinated with it today as I was 35 years ago when I first encountered it.

My interest and love for Quebec French is not political. I am neither for nor against any political or social cause in Quebec. I am not allociated with those who blame the rest of Canada and the rest of the English speaking world for alleged or real injustices against the people of Quebec. Neither am I associated wtih some English speaking Canadians who blame Quebec for all of Canada’s problems. Lastly, I am not alligned with some self-righteous European Frenchmen who look down their noses at Canadian French as a comical bastardization of their language. 

On the contrary, I am simply a lover of French. Few can deny that spoken standard French is one of the most beautiful sounds that can emanate from the human mouth. Likewise, like Michel Tremblay, I see the beauty in joual. A free and unrestrained beauty that is not afraid to change and to evolve.

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