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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

#?!"%@ in Montreal


What language do you swear in?

Good afternoon to you fidèles followers!
Here is a video (just CLICK on TITLE)
that comes from street interviews, a kind of 'vox populi', 
that is published by THE GAZETTE', 
Montréal's English newspaper.
It is a complimentary video to an article that is in today's 
THE GAZETTE,  Wednesday, November 14, 2012.

It's interesting to see how there actually is a mixture and 
not necessarily a unique language for swearing!


Personally I prefer to swear in French.  
WHY? The answer is easy!
There is a much wider variety of words to choose from!
I only swear in English IN MY CAR, when I'm driving!!!
And you surely know which word I'm talking about ...

SUZANNE



Here's the other link for a complete picture of the featured articles: 
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/frenglish/featured_stories.html
COPY and PASTE this address on your browser (moteur de recherche) 


CLICK on the following links for other Gazette videos. 
They are short and FUN!!
Video: Bilingual Montrealers: Anne Marie Withenshaw
Video: Sugar Sammy's language melting pot
Video: Bilingual Montreal entertainer Gregory Charles




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