While many might view Trump’s renamings as comical or unserious, for Indigenous communities, they are reminiscent of centuries of settler-colonial erasure.
- Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions, University of Manitoba
Seemingly meaningless adolescent slang isn’t “brain rot,” it’s linguistically normal, developmentally appropriate and a way of belonging.
Opinions on language are not based in any objective standards of beauty or aesthetics, but rather on our attitudes about the people speaking them.
Some have claimed the proposed new Indigenous names for Winnipeg streets are too difficult to pronounce. But what does it mean when we say a word is hard to pronounce?
Which languages get to “count” as bilingual in Canada? And who gets to be the “right” kind of bilingual?
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