Au Revoir, Franglais

Posted on by Jonathan Beckman

On my way to Montreal last November, I chanced on a short film in which a father grows distraught when his baby son’s first utterance is not ‘papa’ but ‘daddy’. In First Words (2011), the competition between a bilingual couple – one francophone, one Anglo – to give pride of place in the nursery to […]

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