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The Office québécois de la langue française (Canadian French: [ɔˈfɪs kebeˈkwɑ də la lãɡ fʁãˈsaɪ̯z] (OQLF) ('Quebec Office of the French Language') is an agency of the Quebec provincial government charged with ensuring legislative requirements with respect to the right to use French are respected. Established on 24 March 1961 by ...
Pastagate. Pastagate is the informal name of an incident that began in 2013 in Quebec, when, on 14 February, an inspector of the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) sent a letter of warning to upscale Montreal restaurant Buonanotte, for using Italian words such as pasta, antipasti and calamari on its menu instead of their French ...
The Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Office of the French Language) (OQLF), informally known by some Anglophones as the "language police", [27] is the commission responsible for administering policies pertaining to linguistic officialization, toponymy and francization of civil administration and businesses. It also has the ...
The Grand dictionnaire terminologique (GDT) is an online terminological database containing nearly 3 million French, English and Latin technical terms in 200 industrial, scientific and commercial fields. The GDT has existed in a number of formats over the years, including a dial-up service known as Banque de terminologie du Québec (BTQ), and a ...
They are criticized as excluding non-French speakers. The Commission de la protection de la langue française (CPLF) and the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) merged into in 2002 and enforce the Charter of the French Language; it has been derided as the "language police." It has been criticized for enforcing the sign laws ...
Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government. Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French, recorded ...
Quebec French lexicon. There are various lexical differences between Quebec French and Metropolitan French in France. These are distributed throughout the registers, from slang to formal usage. Notwithstanding Acadian French in the Maritime Provinces, Quebec French is the dominant form of French throughout Canada, with only very limited ...
HEC Montréal. Université de Sherbrooke. Profession. Chartered accountant. Signature. Ruba Ghazal (born December 6, 1977) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. [1] She represents the electoral district of Mercier as a member of Québec solidaire.