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Arctic Solidarity. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰
For those not familiar, Nunavut is a Canadian territory encompassing most of the Canadian Arctic including Baffin Island where its capital, Iqaluit, is located.
There are deep historic and ancestral ties, but also very current familial ties between Greenlander and Canadian Inuit peoples. There are international flights between Iqaluit and Nuuk.
#Greenland #Nunavut #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #TheAmericanFascist #Iqaluit
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/01/21/greenlandic-flag-raised-at-nunavut-legislative-assembly/ -
Arctic Solidarity. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰
For those not familiar, Nunavut is a Canadian territory encompassing most of the Canadian Arctic including Baffin Island where its capital, Iqaluit, is located.
There are deep historic and ancestral ties, but also very current familial ties between Greenlander and Canadian Inuit peoples. There are international flights between Iqaluit and Nuuk.
#Greenland #Nunavut #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #TheAmericanFascist #Iqaluit
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/01/21/greenlandic-flag-raised-at-nunavut-legislative-assembly/Our current Governor General Mary Simon -- Titular Commander of our Armed Forces in the King's adsence -- is Inuk, and grew up in traditional life. (yes, dog sleds, Donald!)
Her Inuk name is: Ningiukudluk
It means: “bossy little old lady”.
I am absolutely sure #TheAmericanFascist would hate her. 👍
She has a long career in Arctic/Inuk/Circumpolar politics. She will be in Nuuk next month to open Canada's new consulate.
#Greenland #Nunavut #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #Iqaluit
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Our current Governor General Mary Simon -- Titular Commander of our Armed Forces in the King's adsence -- is Inuk, and grew up in traditional life. (yes, dog sleds, Donald!)
Her Inuk name is: Ningiukudluk
It means: “bossy little old lady”.
I am absolutely sure #TheAmericanFascist would hate her. 👍
She has a long career in Arctic/Inuk/Circumpolar politics. She will be in Nuuk next month to open Canada's new consulate.
#Greenland #Nunavut #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #Iqaluit
@chris Et après 5 ans en poste, elle est toujours incapable de parler français. 🙄
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@chris Et après 5 ans en poste, elle est toujours incapable de parler français. 🙄
@pycomtois she is bilingual... just not as French being one of the two. :)
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@pycomtois she is bilingual... just not as French being one of the two. :)
She does try though.@chris @pycomtois I agree with you except for trying. Even my husband heard her try to "read" one sentence in French this year and it was absolutely impossible to understand
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@chris @pycomtois I agree with you except for trying. Even my husband heard her try to "read" one sentence in French this year and it was absolutely impossible to understand
@stephanie @pycomtois ya it's pretty brutal
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@stephanie @pycomtois ya it's pretty brutal
@chris @pycomtois I'm hoping people would react like you do if she spoke her indigenous language and French. And after 5 years wasn't able to read one word of English.
But I doubt
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@chris @pycomtois I'm hoping people would react like you do if she spoke her indigenous language and French. And after 5 years wasn't able to read one word of English.
But I doubt
@stephanie @pycomtois you're probably right.
Perhaps it is time for a GG who *only* speaks an indigenous language.
;)
It's hard to swallow... but part of decolonizing the nation has to include changing our assumptions for languages.
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@stephanie @pycomtois you're probably right.
Perhaps it is time for a GG who *only* speaks an indigenous language.
;)
It's hard to swallow... but part of decolonizing the nation has to include changing our assumptions for languages.
@chris @pycomtois I'd be fine with that. Just need to change the requirements of the job you know. That one is a FR/EN job (right now), she promised to learn, and she has not even tried a little bit.
You can't be a manager in the PS without speaking FR and EN.
I totally wish we would add extra official languages to Canada though. Then we could have a different conversation.
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@chris @pycomtois I'm hoping people would react like you do if she spoke her indigenous language and French. And after 5 years wasn't able to read one word of English.
But I doubt
@stephanie @chris @pycomtois unfairly, speaking English is never seen as a accomplishment... but as the minimum expected to be considered a functional human. With this I don't mean to say is ok for an government officer to not bilingual. A year of duolingo french while in the loo should be enough to read sentences...
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@stephanie @chris @pycomtois unfairly, speaking English is never seen as a accomplishment... but as the minimum expected to be considered a functional human. With this I don't mean to say is ok for an government officer to not bilingual. A year of duolingo french while in the loo should be enough to read sentences...
#saysTheESL #MiParolasEsperanton #JeParleUnPetiteDuFrançaise@jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois Yep. The number of time I've seen public servants be.. vicious about Québécois having more management jobs at the government because "they just know English - and we don't need French".
It's astounding.
Like... my parents know about 5 words of English. No one in Québec City spoke English when I was born.
I worked hard.
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@jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois Yep. The number of time I've seen public servants be.. vicious about Québécois having more management jobs at the government because "they just know English - and we don't need French".
It's astounding.
Like... my parents know about 5 words of English. No one in Québec City spoke English when I was born.
I worked hard.
@stephanie @jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois I always reply, “are you saying Francophones are more intelligent than Anglophones? I certainly don’t think so!”
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@stephanie @jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois I always reply, “are you saying Francophones are more intelligent than Anglophones? I certainly don’t think so!”
well... if you put it that way ... we might just be 🤣
Seriously, knowing French first helps in learning English. If English is your first language, French is hard to learn.
Mostly because French has explicit grammar classes while English has very little in comparison. -
well... if you put it that way ... we might just be 🤣
Seriously, knowing French first helps in learning English. If English is your first language, French is hard to learn.
Mostly because French has explicit grammar classes while English has very little in comparison.@CleoQc Spanish, my first language as well. and sometimes grammar simplification doesn't help... also sounds.. the fact that sheet and shit use the same vowel sound in Spanish, but not in English stills frightens me.
The auxiliary prepositions.. take out, take off, take in, take up, take ... whatever...I don't want to believe a English speaker is better when learning Spanish/French than a romance language speaker learning English.
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well... if you put it that way ... we might just be 🤣
Seriously, knowing French first helps in learning English. If English is your first language, French is hard to learn.
Mostly because French has explicit grammar classes while English has very little in comparison.@CleoQc @stephanie @jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois ehhhhhhh English has *massive* issues, like tough, thorough, through and all that. It’s not as easy as people think!
The one huge advantage is that it’s everywhere, so you can’t help hearing it all the time. Immersion is more effective than strictly book-based learning. The fact is, most Francos will watch content in English, while the opposite rarely happens, even among bilingual Anglos.
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@CleoQc @stephanie @jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois ehhhhhhh English has *massive* issues, like tough, thorough, through and all that. It’s not as easy as people think!
The one huge advantage is that it’s everywhere, so you can’t help hearing it all the time. Immersion is more effective than strictly book-based learning. The fact is, most Francos will watch content in English, while the opposite rarely happens, even among bilingual Anglos.
@CleoQc @stephanie @jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois Even among Anglo translators! Those that do keep up with some French content tend to stick to European sources. In my particular specialty, knowing Canadian colloquialisms is essential, yet I’m always baffled at seeing my colleagues paying no attention to French Canadian content.
Anyway, all this to say, it’s sort of force-fed to us, which, as unpleasant as it is, of course facilitates learning!
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@CleoQc Spanish, my first language as well. and sometimes grammar simplification doesn't help... also sounds.. the fact that sheet and shit use the same vowel sound in Spanish, but not in English stills frightens me.
The auxiliary prepositions.. take out, take off, take in, take up, take ... whatever...I don't want to believe a English speaker is better when learning Spanish/French than a romance language speaker learning English.
@jubiloMX @CleoQc @stephanie @chris @pycomtois YES! Auxiliary prepositions are a PITA and still trip me!
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@CleoQc Spanish, my first language as well. and sometimes grammar simplification doesn't help... also sounds.. the fact that sheet and shit use the same vowel sound in Spanish, but not in English stills frightens me.
The auxiliary prepositions.. take out, take off, take in, take up, take ... whatever...I don't want to believe a English speaker is better when learning Spanish/French than a romance language speaker learning English.
@jubiloMX @CleoQc @bougiewonderland @chris @pycomtois same. I was learning Spanish and German in college too, and they were both difficult, even if, of course German was harder because it was so different. Learning a language, when it's not taught to you as a child, is difficult. Period. It takes work and determination.
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@CleoQc Spanish, my first language as well. and sometimes grammar simplification doesn't help... also sounds.. the fact that sheet and shit use the same vowel sound in Spanish, but not in English stills frightens me.
The auxiliary prepositions.. take out, take off, take in, take up, take ... whatever...I don't want to believe a English speaker is better when learning Spanish/French than a romance language speaker learning English.
@jubiloMX
Indeed there are challenges when learning English from a romance language. When in doubt, I avoid those propositional phrases and favour more advanced vocabulary. Coming from French, it usually means using the anglicized version of the standard French word. It's almost cheating 😀 -
@CleoQc @stephanie @jubiloMX @chris @pycomtois Even among Anglo translators! Those that do keep up with some French content tend to stick to European sources. In my particular specialty, knowing Canadian colloquialisms is essential, yet I’m always baffled at seeing my colleagues paying no attention to French Canadian content.
Anyway, all this to say, it’s sort of force-fed to us, which, as unpleasant as it is, of course facilitates learning!
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@Shunra @cstross @Gargron
My go-to example is the Esperanto translation of Alice Through The Looking Glass published by Evertype, which has 5 different translations of "Jabberwocky", each of which is absolutely "correct" and each of which is totally different from each other. Even the names of the poem differ.
In each case one can see the decisions the translator made balancing meter, rhyme, meaning, implications & nuance of the text, based on what it meant to them; how can a computer do that?
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Well said. 👍
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@Gargron and worth repeating the quality directly depends on the quality of actual human translated text corpus.
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@Gargron
And it's not just expressions and turns of phrase, which are unique not only to each language but easily to each region.It's words. There is often no exact match. Many words in one language are not a precise correspondence to those in another.
So an elegant turn of phrase in one becomes a wordy explanation in the other. Or a misinterpretation.
Only someone fluent in both languages can convey the true meaning accurately and eloquently.
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@paul on Bluesky. I had been testing Ice Cubes’ local timeline and I was wondering what he was up to… he has been posting there a lot about AI.
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