Montreal Gazette

Language nitpickers need to get a life

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Re: “Businesses upset over OQLF’s online salvo” (Gazette, Feb. 28)

I took a look at Article 52 of Quebec’s Charter of the French Language. There does not appear to be any reference to language restric- tions with regard to social media such as Facebook.

How can the Office québécois de la langue française have any control over Facebook content? Should it not be concentrat­ing on its ordinary harassment and persecutio­n of small Quebec English businesses? Cracking down on sales staff guilty of greeting clients with a “Bonjour-Hi” salutation?

This matter must be settled by the courts.

And to the small-minded, mean-spirited individual who lodged a complaint against Eva Cooper’s Facebook page: get a life. Cynthia Jarjour

St-Lambert

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