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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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