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Description: Richler's article on Quebec's language laws.
(June 01, 1997)
More on Mordecai Richler, from The New York Times Archives nlike my literary peers in the United States and the Rest of Canada - or the R.O.C., as it is now known here in Quebec - I can no longer scribble in English with impunity, which makes for a certain frisson. The Commission de Protection de la Langue Francaise has dispersed 15 inspectors, each of them armed with a tape measure and color chart, to make sure that English lettering on outdoor commercial signs is half the size of the French, and that perfidious Anglophones haven't painted their half-pint messages in colors more alluring than the French. If Quebec's language laws tighten just one more notch, I may have to write my novels in words half the size of the French so as not to antagonize our linguistic vigilantes. I have already had to take down the billboard rooted in the field opposite our cottage on Lake Memphremagog:
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