Heh, heh. I'm not entirely sure that Brooklynese is an English dialect either but then I need my British born wife to translate Dr. Who episodes for me...
Language is a sensitive issue in Canada, we have been trying since 1757 to deal with the duality of this country with mixed success. This is probably why this whole Habs coach thing is big in Quebec, a non-issue in The Rest of Canada (TROC) and perplexing to the international membership here.
French Canadians do not relate to France hardly at all and consider themselves culturally unique. Up until the late 1950's the social order in Quebec resembled, more than anything else, that of pre-revolutionary France, with the clergy and landowners dominating the rural areas and Anglophone business interests ruling in the industrialized cities. That has changed with the pendulum swinging the other way but the mix of English, Hockey and les Canadien's is seen as potentially exploitable for sovereignists. TROC is seeing nothing new and so response has been mute and it's really none of the rest of the world's business who the Habs corporate bosses hire or why.
So taking a poorly worded Yahoonews sound bite and using it to make value judgments on an entire country with neither context or subject knowledge is is bit over the top in my opinion. But it is typical Forum stuff.
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