Yesterday, Journal de Montreal’s journalist Sophie Durocher wrote an article on her blog on the online newspaper’s website entitled “Simple Plan killing the French language”. In this article, Durocher criticised the Canadian band for a tweet that was sent from the official account (@simpleplan) on Saturday, which included a message – in French – iniviting fans to buy tickets for the Foundation event. It wasn’t the message itself that outraged the reporter, it was the grammar, which included a few discrepancies. Durocher argued that the band doesn’t care enough for their “1% of French” tweets.
This caused a series of tweets from both Chuck Comeau and Jeff Stinco apologizing for the grammatic errors in the tweet (which has since been deleted), mentioning the tweet hadn’t been written by them, but by one of the employees of their management, who didn’t know the language perfectly. Read Jeff’s and Chuck’s statements below:
“On behalf of SP, I assure you it will not happen again. We all share a great love for the French language.” – Jeff Stinco
“It’s been a few days since the official Simple Plan account published a message containing several unacceptable faults in the French language. An employee of our management company, who obviously did not master the language, took the unfortunate initiative to send this message without consulting us. We’re really sorry. It will not happen again. I think everyone knows that we are proud to be from the province of Quebec and to speak French.” – Chuck Comeau
