De Culturis
Mundi

First of all: some clarification is due about the terminology. As I mentioned in one of my first posts I chose WP beacuse I loved “the possibility of writing in different languages, with different alphabets without having to think for a moment about charset, encoding and all that stuff that made my life miserable when administering a CMS and every author needed a different charset”. This is true even today, since WP can do this, however my demands and wishes have been grown bigger.
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I’ve got an email about a week ago (shame on me: didn’t answer yet). It was a very nice mail, but there was a line that struck me:

I followed [... a] link back to your blog, and I want to applaud your efforts to make multi-culturalism a reality in Canada; I wish we were one-tenth as close in the US.

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Everything related to WP, themes, design… has been moved to my Development Blog. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Recently I was reading a web page where the information was displayed in a two-column table. No, this is not going to be a table-bashing post, I don’t belong to those purists who yell “crime” whenever they see a table. My problem was of a totally different nature. I was trying to follow the logic in the order of dispaying the items, and couldn’t find any. Later I re-visited the site, and everything became clear. What happened in the meantime? Simply, they got numbered the items.
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Finally, and first time in my life, I’ve visited our “distinct society” or whatever they like to call Québec. Montréal and Québec City (which, btw, on all the highway signs is posted only as Quebec - no City -, to make you feel totally lost and confused).

Yes, it seems indeed quite different than the rest of Canada. As you get off the plane you notice the cab drivers don’t wear turban. Nor do they speak English, or very little. Our driver actually was a huge black guy with broken English, but he took us to the right place; but he got upset for having to accept payment by credit card. Then further on the highway toward the city I realized the “official bilingualism” is mandatory only for the other provinces. I remember driving once from Hamilton, ON to Vancouver, BC and back — the highway signs were always bilingual: English and French. Around Montréal — only French.
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