<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Dear Members,<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">I am resending this message (below) because I haven't had any</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">response from ANYBODY about the origins of this political cartoon.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Surely somebody in Canada knows more about this? </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><br>I have just unearthed a political cartoon on the subject of language<br>policy in Canada that I have been looking for ever since I started </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">the cartoons page on the language policy site. It is attached </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">herewith. I wonder if anyone can identify when and where it first</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">appeared? It shows the figure of Stalin with upraised fist, </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">announcing that "you are mere steps away from Franglais </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">taking its rightful place in the nation of suspect languages." </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Other figures in the picture are holding up signs </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">proclaiming that Rene Levesque is sexy etc. Another sign<br>says "Vote oui!" and at the bottom, "Six Steps:" Unfortunately<br>there's no mention of the six steps in this image.<br>
<br>(If your email system can't display the image, go to the cartoons page at<br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html</a><br>
<br>Any help identifying the source of this image would be appreciated!<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>HS<br><br>- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br>Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>
Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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