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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Ottawa is probably the poster child for pretty stupidly done bilingualism.
Another of my favourite examples - the automated stop announcements on buses in Ottawa are said in English and again in French, even when the announcement is exactly the same. So you hear, for example.. "Beech... Beech" or "Bronson.. Bronson".
Often things PSAs on billboards or in bus stop shelters will be in either one language or the other, with no geographic logic to where each language goes. So you'll have a promotional billboard for a city program be in French-only in a neighbourhood that is 99% anglophone, while the same billboard will be in English-only in an area like Vanier which actually has a sizeable Francophone population.
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This for example is just weird to me - and I've been bilingual all my life.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3600577,...g7gvk5VwyfQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
This isn't actually the City of Ottawa's signage (it's Ontario Ministry of Transportation), though it's on the outer fringe of Ottawa.
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