[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Scott Knitter]

I grew up within the CBC Windsor viewing and listening area, or at
least its spillover into Michigan. But I was definitely in the small
minority of stateside folks who watched and listened to anything
beyond Hockey Night in Canada and maybe curious viewers of Saturday
curling bonspiels. And the Friendly Giant and Mr. Dressup. I liked
Chez Hélène as well. A weird kid I was and am.

Learned a lot from the CBC over the years.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not language related, but growing up in da rench, north of Duluth the
> vending machines took American AND Canadian coins.  The hospital where I
> started as a nursing assistant and RN (in Virginia, Mn) flew the American,
> State, and Canadian flags.
>
> Sadly, most of the people this far south have poor to no knowledge about
> Canada.
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> jon
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I first heard the term "defensive ___" from a Jewish friend who used it in
>> relation to Yiddish and I thought it a very excellent description indeed of
>> a language that one picked up on a "need to know" basis. Then my late ex
>> used it in relation to the German that he picked up so he could understand
>> what the adults were talking about when they switched into it in front of
>> the kids.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:26 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > We called it "grandmother French."
>> >
>> > My grandmothers were both such pistols. Couldn't imagine two
>> > more different women, one tall, serene and red-headed, the other
>> > tiny, animated and dark. Languid or energetic. Confident or wary.
>> >
>> > Must go back to packing up the car. Nice break, though (went
>> > from being like Gramere to Grammie and now back to Gramere).
>> > -M
>> >
>> > On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > it is! She figures they may pick up some "defensive French" sooner or
>> > > later, though. (I introduced her to that term)
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>



-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA