bout de papier, Volume 7, Issue No. 3, 1990
bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 3, 1988
Not Your Ordinary Tomato!
One of the great things about Canada is its bilingual character. That’s not only because having a second language is another window on the world, but it also allows for fairly odd and funny moments – almost always inadvertent – that we…
Dumplings in Harbin
In Vol. 7, No. 2 of bout de papier, Hugh Stephens described the rigours of learning Chinese and concluded that had he not learned the language, “going to China would have been like having no eyes or ears. It would have been…
The Secret Kingdom: Interpretations of the Canadian Character
The Secret Kingdom is one of the finest books about Canadians I have ever read. Dominique Clift writes, after thirty years of political journalism, in both languages. In the preface, he says his book is derived in part from that experience. But…
“So You Want to Learn Chinese”
Story by Hugh Stephens Photos by Fredericka Gregory
English Through the Wringer
Sidney Freifield’s alert commentary on The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Publishing prompts me to write about another side of the literary coin, by which I mean rewriting drafts for the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for External Affairs.
The Canadian Style: The Guide to Writing and Editing
The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing, published last year by the Department of the Secretary of State, is the English-language counterpart of French-language style manual published by that department in 1983 (the Guide du rédacteur de l’administration fédérale) and…
Freifeld On: The Queen’s English
Since Bout de papier certainly would not tolerate from its French-language contributors such linguistic blemishes as le weekend, le jogging, le gaz or le jazz, may I
