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ny Canadians, if asked to submitted by refugees. But as the country and even the ethnic distinctions are made t W01ilIgh .kings and other• eztalltqd pursaJus. f
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P lJltlillit the time when the first number off refugees Vietnamese are related to them, changes in word order and e • In Vietnam the laralily pante is t �`,. ;`
10111flCWese refugees began to and with it the number of a - culturally, raciail and through use of ceri,am words,whicl SerV written first, followed b 'at li�ast}�
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arrive in Canada, would cite the plications it soon became their language. Khmer (Cam- as grammatical indicators. Thea two more names, tie last of
heavily publicized Hai Hon + 'first' ,
Hong evident that rapid processing Bodian) and Laotian languages, basic components of Vietnamese 'which is the first name. Thi' as
incident late last year as the alone was not enough.. on the other hand, are based on words are single syllables, ascii. part of a Vietnamese name in-
wont that set the process in This realization led eventually Sanskrit and the Indian influence of which expresses a distinct dicates the child is. a ;girl, 'Van', a
to the exclusive )assignment of a is more obvious in their culture. idea. boy (the word actually means
However, a quick check of files number of er3aployees to According to John Chu, An important feature of d 'literate'). Many males no longer
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maintained by Employment and the refugee problems. From the coordinator of the Vietnamese Vietnamese is a system of per- bother using 'Van' in their name,
Immigration Canada reveals refugees' point of view and that Association of Toronto, Viet sonal pronouns and personal however, and the more liberated » ,�
1 that although the number of
of the sponsoring grotps what namese is a tonal language, using classifiers indicating status
J women have dispensed with
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Indochinese refugees arriving in was really needed .was a way of five different tones or inflections. relationships. Age, education, -Thi,.
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Canada has swollen during the getting information about OHIP Distinctions in meaning are personal achievement and of- Since there are only a dozen or;
p 10 months, the flow has been and the requisite forms into the made through the use of levels of ficial rank command respect, `so surnames commonly used
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significant since the r..id-197os. hands of groups as soon after the pitch in other words, it's not only which is displayed in s speech as man Vietnamese confine theirs
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One of the earliest ad arrival gof ptheir sponsored what you say but how you say it well as conduct The use of the use to formal occasions. There
mirustrative problems caused by families as possible. This last that makes the difference. wrong term or form can cause are so man N u ens, Trans, : II
the sudden influx of a large There are three ma •or dialects, offence. l�
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number of Indochinese refugees placing supplies roup each very different. However, 'Toi', the most commonly used almost Eike having the bulk of the z
to Ontario was devising a method OHIP application -iada Roman characters, with a word for 'I' in the Vietnamese population named Smith, Jones
to easily and quickly enroll them Employment Centres aJld im- variety of accent marks, are used language, etymologically has the and Brown. The titles 'Ong'_
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into the Ontario Health Insurance migration centres where they are When writing. This means a meaning 'servant' or 'subor- (Mr.), 'Ba' (Mrs.), 'Co' ( Miss) P:
Plan. Refugees are eligible for readily available. regular typewriter can be used dinate'. The simple pronoun 'You' a
g Y YPe P P Y and 'Cu' (for an old man or
OHIP coverage as soon' as they for transcribing and the accent has innumerable equivalents, woman) are placed before the
arrive in the province, but it's up COMMUNICATION IS marks added by hand. ranging -from on (the en
g g g` g family name if it is being used in s '
to the sponsoring group to ensure A TWO-WAY STREET Verbs are eget conjugated; tleman) and `em' ( younger its entirety, but since first names
they register immediately. While the refugees are busily nouns, pronouns and adjectives sibling) to 'cu', used only for are used so frequently on theirl?
Placing rheonus s sponsoring
registration studying English and French, a are not declined; number and venerable, aged people, and own the title would then precede WAITING TO HIT—Bobby Ricker and other teary mates Walt with Coach (Caren Reid for
on p g group, quick, cram course in the gender dont exist. Grammatical 'ngai', reserved exclusively for the given name. their turns to bat In tee ball.
however, often caused needless structure of their language might(
delays in processing that prove useful to the thousands of`
sometimes resulted in dif- Canadians involved in the
ficulties. refugee movement.
The problem was partly The vast majority of current
overcome by a plan first put into refugees come from Vietnam
F` action during the Hai Hong in- where the Chinese influence has
cident in November, 1978. It been paramount for centuries.
simply involved
P Y priority The Chinese represent the
processing of OHIP applications largest minority group in the
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