LordPassionFruit

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In general, I'd say you're right that Alberta wouldn't have a large population of francophones. But, especially in anglophone provinces, French speakers tend to live in French communities.

Like in my province, you could carve out ~80% of the land and have about 97% English speakers to 3% French speakers. But the remaining 20% is nearly 90% French speakers.

Packaging having both languages on it is a federal level legal requirement, since we are bilingual. However, the stop signs are more a regional thing. If there is a francophone population in the area, and you're not in Quebec, you might see both on a sign. In my home province, we have the dual language signs wherever the French speaking population is large enough to warrant it, but everywhere else has English only.

on Mrrrp · c/cat · 81 pts · 68d

Before we got our kitten (2 years old) our older cat (8 years old) only had a handful of very similar meows. Sure, there would be tone so you could kinda guess what he wanted, but they were all variations of the same. The new kitten comes in, and she's a chatter box. She makes so many different sounds, you can always tell what mood she's in, what she's doing, and what she wants. It's lovely.

The problem with this is that she's started teaching the older cat new sounds, so on top of his normal sounds he'll occasionally make one that I've never heard him make before. And it's absolutely disorienting. He'll make a noise and look at me expectantly, and I will have absolutely no idea what he wants. He's always good to show me what he wants, but man must he think I'm an idiot now.

The methods of counting thenumber of countries in the world is contentious, and there are many different ways to count. 196 is the official 'UN' number, but that excludes places like Palestine and Somaliland. If you're going to include those nations, what about South Osetia and Abkhazia? Western Sahara? How about things that call themselves countries but are recognized by no one, like Sealand?

I believe that 204 is approximately the number of countries that are recognized by at least one UN member state, but at least 4 of those are recognized only by Russia and each other.

on Blue law · c/wikipedia · 2 pts · 92d

My province only lifted ours in the mid-2000s, and most businesses don't open for full hours if at all on Sundays.

But look at her right arm, which is about the expected length. What if she was caught in some Willy Wonka-esque stretching machine, but managed to escape before more than her left arm was caught?