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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days 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.

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago

As a west coaster, quebecois is unrefined and coarse.

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I find it very strange as someone as comfortably far away from French Canada one can be while still being on the continent that I technically am described as French by this diagram. I failed French so hard in 8th grade my teacher passed me on the promise that I never take another French class.

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Honestly, same. I "passed" grade 8 French with a 51%, and it was a in-person correspondence course (school was remote and didn't have a French teacher, so we did the homeschooling course at the school).

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Before the revolution, and for most of the nineteenth century there was hardly any common French idea. Like with most countries, community and tradition are recent inventions.

Graham Robb in 'the discovery of France' has the perfect analogy that a French dialect only carried as far as the nearest church bell. People a valley further would speak a different vernacular.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

I respect the inclusion of Haiti here.

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

not Algeria tho

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 days ago

All variants of French are real. Source: am pedantic linguist.

[-] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago

Take the red pill, all linguistic categories are equally unreal.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago

Take more red pills, reality is a social construct defined by the owning class to oppress us. http://soulism.net

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

No version of French is real Source: this was revealed to me in a dream

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Even the creole spoken near N'arlines?

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The Gullah Geechee peoples dialect?

Of course.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

France treat French just like England treats English, we can fuck the language as much as we want it will still have our name on it 👌

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I love the etymology of the word Cajun. They’re Louisiana Acadians saying Acadian with a southern accent.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago

Canadian French is the abandoned old French child that mixed with sal Anglais for 200 years. It's the French mutt. They are furthest and closest to old French at the same time.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 11 points 4 days ago

Des vrais français demanderaient leur indépendance

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The rest of us would be absolutely giddy if that happened.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

on la demandé, sa juste pas passé heureusement


[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 3 days ago

Le monde ne change pas si des tĂȘtes ne tombent pas

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 14 points 4 days ago

I met a man from France who said that the French spoken in Montréal is "real French." I was pretty shocked to hear that.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 38 points 4 days ago

People have mental health issues in every country

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

C'est vrai. Mais notre français québécois et nos accents se perdent. Principalement à cause de combien on s'est moqué de nous au fil de l'histoire et aussi à cause de l'Internet.

[-] Biotron1@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Je plusseoie! Ostie d't'abarnak de Calice de Criss!!

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Sa aide pas que 90% dla TV que ben du monde ont grandis avec avant l’internet etait en francais de france. Jte dis derniere fois chu allĂ© a Montreal chu restĂ© surpris comment lmonde parle ben. Pas comme en france, mais pas ben loin


[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Il y a beaucoup de gens habitués au Français international qui résident sur l'ßle, je me demande si ça influe.

J'ai surpris des quĂ©becois dire "putain" ou "du coup", c'Ă©tait drĂŽle 😁

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Oui les français ont eu une grosse influence Ă  MontrĂ©al aussi. Ils sont arrivĂ©s en grand nombre Ă  MontrĂ©al et ils ont Ă©tĂ© assez rapides pour se moquer de notre accent ce qui en a laissĂ© plusieurs assez complexĂ©s au point oĂč ils ont changĂ© leur parlure. C'est assez triste.

[-] librejoe@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ew I'm not french. Get that crap east of ottawa outta here.

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Who doesn't love fishing in Quebec?

Fucks I could go fors a puppers rights about nowa.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Ooh la lĂĄ!
Zoot allors!

[-] WhimsicalSofa@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 days ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 3 days ago

heavy Creole accent I like to see homos naked.

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