[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Scott, wasn't the local Canadian station in Detroit CKLW?

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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)
> 
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> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA