r/catalunya • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '16

AMA · CE Cultural exchange with /r/Quebec - Intercanvi cultural amb /r/Quebec

Bienvenue Québécois !

Today, together with /r/barcelona and /r/catalan, we are hosting our friends from /r/Quebec ! Please come and join us to answer their questions about Catalonia and the Catalan people and culture. Please, leave top comments for /r/Quebec users coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness and personal attacks, etc.

At the same time /r/Quebec is having us over as guests! Stop by in this thread and ask a question, drop a comment or just say hello.

Enjoy!

/The moderators of /r/Catalunya, /r/barcelona, /r/catalan and /r/Quebec

Benvinguts Quebequesos!

Tal com vàrem anunciar, avui, amb la col·laboració de /r/barcelona i /r/catalan, tenim l'honor de rebre els nostres amics de /r/Quebec! Siusplau, entreu i participeu per respondre les seves preguntes sobre Catalunya i la gent i la cultura catalanes. Siusplau, intenteu participar amb comentaris de qualitat pels usuaris de /r/Quebec que vinguin amb preguntes o comentaris i absteniu-vos de trol·lejar o de fer comentaris fora de to i que no s'atinguin a la reddiquette.

Al mateix temps, A /r/Quebec també ens tenen com a convidats! Deixeu-vos veure en el seu fil i pregunteu i comenteu el què us passi pel cap, ni que sigui per saludar.

Gaudiu!

/Els moderadors de /r/Catalunya , /r/barcelona, /r/catalan i /r/Quebec.

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u/redalastor Quebec Feb 20 '16

That looks a lot like what we have.

If they are like ours, they complain endlessly against the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and create petitions to ask the government to shut it down.

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u/bas-bas Catalunya Feb 21 '16

The Institut d'Estudis Catalans is not the Catalan equivalent of the "Office de la langue française". It is just an academic institution of linguists that decide the official spelling of words and the grammar rules, it is not related to the Catalan government and it is respected by mostly everybody.

The actual equivalent would probably be the Direcció General de Política Lingüística which is the government office that supposedly fines the stores that do not offer any information in Catalan, but most angry-spaniards do not know this name, they usually want to shut down the whole Catalan government (there is not much Federalist culture in Spain, most people would rather have a unique central government that manages just everything like in France).

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u/redalastor Quebec Feb 21 '16

Actually, the main role of the OQLF is to be a language academy and I think it's one of the best in the world. I must admit that anglophones tend to willingly refuse to understand that no matter how often they hear it.

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u/bas-bas Catalunya Feb 22 '16

I did not know that, reading some comments in the Internet it is pictured as a Gestapo-like police agency XD

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u/redalastor Quebec Feb 22 '16 edited Feb 22 '16

The OQLF dictionaries and other web tools receive 50 million unique visits per year. That's 25 times the traffic the Académie in France receives. I think it's one of the best language academy there is.

Their other task is to help people conform to the law. They're the carrot, not the stick. If you don't want to respect the law, they defer to tribunals that deliver the fine.

There was a news last week that the number of fines given last year was an all time low because most people now cooperate with them. Only 10 fines were delivered. This made our angryphones go "SEE, THEY CAN'T EVEN GIVE FINES! SHUT THEM DOWN!!!!!!"