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Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School renamed wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm
The Vancouver Sun ^ | Dec 10, 2022 | Tiffany Crawford

Posted on 12/11/2022 3:03:52 AM PST by fluorescence

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1 posted on 12/11/2022 3:03:52 AM PST by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence

I submit that a better name for it would be “Wokeness Elementary Indoctrination Center”.


2 posted on 12/11/2022 3:06:55 AM PST by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: fluorescence

I have no words


3 posted on 12/11/2022 3:08:41 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: fluorescence

Is this satire? Cause if it is, it’s pretty good.


4 posted on 12/11/2022 3:16:29 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: fluorescence

Put that on a hockey jersey and then put that on the kids. Can you imagine the parents yelling, “Go, [school name] Wendigos!”

Needlessly complicated. What was wrong with the old name again?


5 posted on 12/11/2022 3:18:59 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: fluorescence

Will the instructions be in Musqueam? Or just the usual Cherokee? I’m partial to Navajo myself, used as code in WW II.


6 posted on 12/11/2022 3:20:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: fluorescence

“Sir Matthew” was too easy to pronounce.


7 posted on 12/11/2022 3:22:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: Palio di Siena; All; flaglady47; M Kehoe
Looks like the Canadian provinces are beginning to go as mad as Biden's program for the United Soviet States of America.

Leni

8 posted on 12/11/2022 3:23:11 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Palio di Siena

Maybe numbers to change history?

Like 1984?


9 posted on 12/11/2022 3:23:35 AM PST by Does so (It's not OUR guns...It's YOUR sons!)
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To: fluorescence

oh Canada.............falling fast we are right behind you


10 posted on 12/11/2022 3:24:50 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: fluorescence

Political correct is just another way of saying, we are no longer an institute of learning.


11 posted on 12/11/2022 3:28:16 AM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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To: Does so

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12 posted on 12/11/2022 3:30:11 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: fluorescence

if there are ‘no longer any fluent hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speakers in Musqueam’ how does Larry know how to pronounce the words?


13 posted on 12/11/2022 3:37:27 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: fluorescence
I think renaming the school is a great idea. And to carry it even further, every adult in the school should be required to speak only in the language of their ancestors. So for example, if you’re of Italian descent you must speak only in Italian while on school grounds.

Sure, this will cause the school some expense as they’ll have to provide Rosetta Stone programs to folks who don’t know the old languages. But I think it would be worth it.


14 posted on 12/11/2022 3:41:46 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: fluorescence

Hardly anyone left that speaks the language. They won’t use any kind of useful alphabet. They won’t let us pronounce it.

Yes, that’s about right, dumba$$


15 posted on 12/11/2022 3:42:42 AM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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--- :“Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ is the language our ancestors spoke for thousands of years, which was systematically taken from us to the point that there are no longer any fluent hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speakers in Musqueam,” said Chief yəχʷyaχʷələq (Wayne Sparrow) in a statement provided from the school board."

The statement "provided" was made in English. Odd how these Canadians who feel so victimized by the British crown and its colonial tendrils are using the language of ENGLAND to complain about the English....

Chief Wayne Sparrow doesn't speak the language "fluently" by his own remarks. In English. Odd, eh? Maybe he should have used Quebec French instead....

16 posted on 12/11/2022 3:42:50 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: fluorescence

Yeah.... that’s real “inclusive”.


17 posted on 12/11/2022 3:51:04 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: fluorescence
This is a deliberate attempt at a divide and conquer strategy. The Left is deliberately stoking division.

The same is happening in, of all places, Morocco. Berber is an unwritten language that is spoken in some tribal areas. The globalist left is now mandating signage and education in Berber, but not using phonetic Arabic or Roman letters, which the people already use.

(French is the second language of Morocco, so historically signs are in Arabic and in French. This way, tourists who don't read Arabic can get around. This is common across the middle east: signs in Arabic and Roman lettering.)

Like in the Canadian example, the globalist lefties created a whole knew Berber alphabet, that never existed in history, and are making children learn it, are putting up signs using it, etc.

Think about Quebec's mandatory French signs, now think of entire new alphabets being mandated, step by step, across Canada, following the Moroccan model.


18 posted on 12/11/2022 3:55:31 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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It reminds me of schools hiring Swahili teachers back in the 1960s. The problem is that no one in government or business in Africa speaks Swahili.


19 posted on 12/11/2022 3:56:37 AM PST by laconic
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To: fluorescence

How are the teachers and school secretary supposed to type this on a normal keyboard? I know there are ways, but it certainly isn’t done quickly.


20 posted on 12/11/2022 3:56:47 AM PST by FredSchwartz (What ever happened to common sense and simple logic?)
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