Compitince
Apr. 8th, 2007 03:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollCanada's interim placeholder government bungles Vimy Ridge memorial sign translations, then avoids taking personal responsibility.
That would be bad enough but the language that the volunteers managed to mangle was one of the two official languages of Canada.
Am I misremembering or was there a time when conservatives claimed to be the guardians of real competence, real standards?
What this whole affair has its roots in is contempt for certain jobs. Everyone speaks one or more languages so why on Earth would you need a professional to handle the job of translation? Amateurs are just as good and free!
That would be bad enough but the language that the volunteers managed to mangle was one of the two official languages of Canada.
Am I misremembering or was there a time when conservatives claimed to be the guardians of real competence, real standards?
What this whole affair has its roots in is contempt for certain jobs. Everyone speaks one or more languages so why on Earth would you need a professional to handle the job of translation? Amateurs are just as good and free!
