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[โ€“] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 69 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This is referring to the fact that after the French revolution the people of France changed the way they spoke to sound more like how the noble class spoke. The French in North America were isolated from this and maintained the "original" way of speaking French.

Nowadays, to a Quebecer, Parisian French sounds pompous and snobbish, while to a French person, Quebecers sound unrefined and coarse.

[โ€“] synapse1278@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Parisian Franch sounds pompous and snobbish to other French. Although, it really depends which accent you're talking about, there are several distinct accents coexisting in Paris nowadays.

Anyway, I really respect the effort of Quebec to keep inventing new French works.

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