Webster’s dictionary defines Definition of Bilingual as:
1. having or expressed in two languages a bilingual document an officially bilingual nation
2. using or able to use two languages especially with equal fluency bilingual in English and Japanese
3. of or relating to bilingual education
— bilingual noun
— bilingually adverb
Why do the locals here think it means French and English?
—Rosetta Stone
This article appears in Jan 11-17, 2018.
The answer is simple & obvious.. you’re just being ______.
(Consider the history of the area dumb dumb)
As a long-time local, I believe it’s English and French because Canada’s two official languages are English and French. And if my history lessons serve me, Nova Scotia, and even Halifax saw English and French coming here to found our lands. So I vote English and French!
Listen, don’t be a shit-disturber! Neither the English nor French like shit-disturbers… comprends?
Oh no….they’re multiplying!! Oh god….am I one too, now??! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It has to do with a document called the 1982 constitution. It says among other things that Canada’s language duality is based on the two European founding cultures…French and English. So this is why today it is mostly assumed that being bilingual is associated with English and French. Maybe 100 years from now there wont be any English or French spoken anywhere who knows. Perhaps someone will reword the constitution to reflect that when this occurs.