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Originally Posted by homeboy
By the way, what exactly is the "foundation pour l'aphabetization"?
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It translates as "Literacy Foundation" and is headquartered in Montreal. It exists to counter illiteracy in Quebec. You can read more here (it even has an English link):
http://www.fqa.qc.ca/
Given that the French maintain the Académie française to "defend the French language" (since 1635, mind you), I first thought the Fondation pour l'alphabétisation might be a sister organization established in the 1600s to defend the alphabetization of the French language. But alas, to my disappointment, such is not the case.
Along those lines, Chirac recently walked out of a EU meeting because the French representative, a leading English-educated steel baron, gave his presentation in English.
To the barricades!