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French lawmaker proposes bill to outlaw mockery of accents
Reuters ^
| October 19, 2018
| Staff
Posted on 10/19/2018 11:05:59 AM PDT by C19fan
A French member of parliament has proposed that mockery of accents be outlawed, after an irate politician derided a journalist’s southwestern pronunciation before asking if anyone had a question in “understandable French”.
Laetitia Avia of President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party said she was proposing a bill that would classify such mockery with other forms of prohibited discrimination such as on grounds of sex or race.
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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: accents; avia; eussr; france; frenchaccent; laetitiaavia; language; macron
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NYers, Bostonians, Red Necks,and Cajuns approve of this.
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:05:59 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:06:48 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: C19fan
Sacre bleu ! So I cannot taunt you again with my outrageous French accent?!?
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:08:15 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:08:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It i. Thank you.s either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
Peter Sellers would have been locked up in the slammer for a long time!
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:08:29 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: C19fan
Monty Python’s “The Holy Grail” is doomed.
To: C19fan
“Go away or I shall taunt you again!”
To: C19fan
Queue the voice of Inspector Jacques Clouseau: “There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”
Inspector Clouseau - 1968
To: NohSpinZone
Him and Steve Martin.
“It’s like those French, have a different word for everything.”
“So you try to speak with a fake French accent thinking they’ll understand you, ‘We would like to go to ze ‘otel”
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:11:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
That’s being way too sensitive. It only invites more intense teasing and trolling behavior.
To: C19fan
In a few year, it won’t matter, Frenchies! You’ll all be speaking Arabic with a French accent!
Merde alors !
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:11:37 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The country is suffering from a hysterical obsession with race, skin color and national origin.)
To: I want the USA back
Yep, good luck in Paris actually trying to find a cab driver that actually speaks French, as opposed to Arabic.
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:13:26 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Billthedrill
“I fart in your general direction”
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:13:37 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
To: C19fan
Paging Inspector Cloooozoooooohhhhh.
To: C19fan
“What a cute little minkey!”
To: READINABLUESTATE
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:18:23 AM PDT
by
golux
To: C19fan
“Laetitia Avia of President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party said she was proposing a bill that would classify such mockery with other forms of prohibited discrimination such as on grounds of sex or race.”
I fart in your general direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:25:34 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: C19fan
So, no more Monty Python?
To: All
Next, people will be arrested for even having the appearence
of thinking thoughts that might mock someones
accent, race, etc.. And God help if you are wearing a garment
with a certain color that somebody doesn't like.
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posted on
10/19/2018 11:27:18 AM PDT
by
StormEye
To: C19fan
French lawmaker proposes bill to outlaw accents
there fixed it
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