On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:12:09 -0600, Gregory Morrow wrote:

> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I find North American English,
>>
>> So tell us where you from and im sure we can find equally disturbing
>> usage of language in whatever place of origin you claim.
>> Given the nature of your complaint i would guess you are "English" and
>> thus subject to all the criticism that goes with a country that sustain
>> class distinctions based on the spoken word.
>
>
> Michel Boucher is French - Canadian and IIRC lives in the Ottawa area...he
> is a long - time poster here. IIRC he is (or was) a librarian for the
> Canadian Parliament...
>
> He HATES the English language and also ALL Anglophones, he holds them in
> sneering contempt...in fact I believe he is on some sort of "Do Not Enter"
> list for the United States!
>
> Politically speaking he is also a die - hard COMMUNIST who would love
> nothing more than seeing old Soviet - style communism reigning as the one
> and only socio - political system in all the world. His ideal world would
> be present - day Cuba - - with a swinging Francophone beat, natch...
>
> That said I always enjoy Michel's food posts, I myself have learned much
> about poutine and other things...those French Canadians surely have a
> penchant for rustic peasant dishes.
>
> I know he'll really appreciate that subscription to _The Western Standard_
> and _The Collected Works of Mark Steyn_ ("bound in calfskin, embossed in
> gold...") that I'm gifting him for the upcoming holiday (in his case New
> Year's, him being a communist Christmas is verboten and all...)...
>
> :-)

mark 'the human' steyn *and* jonah goldberg? you sure have a taste for
right-wing numbskulls.

blake