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I hear you québécois in the comments, you have French words we dont have and I do think it's great. And when I watched your TV it seemed to be mostly French.
But when I listen to podcasts it's English words in every sentence.
Same is happening I France now, but we suck at English so it doesn't sound good. "Cette chanson est un ban-guhrr"
Also everybody started using "du coup" 10 years ago. Ainsi, donc, apres quoi, puis, car, puisque, etc... - > du coup
That's very interesting but eastern Germany appearing on maps again worries me.
A friend from Kebek told me that language police showed up in her father's work once and said that everyone has to switch their Windows to French or they will be fined. It was international company and not everyone in the office spoke French...
Some other dude was fined for displaying a sign with "welcome" written in many different languages. Only signs in French are allowed.
It's not about promoting or protecting the languages. It's about discriminating and punishing people that don't conform.
Imagine being less likeable than the French and by choice as well.
décomplexé
Duolingo only has Brazilian Portuguese
Brazil has more people than Portugal (213 million v 11 million). France has more population than Quebec (69 million (66 million for Metropolitan France) v 9 million)
Okay, (funny) story time.
I'm French and live in France. Many years ago I met a girl from Quebec (Chicoutimi), and in our discussion she told me that when she arrived in France, her first night the heating was off in her flat and it was very cold. She tried to sleep in what she referred to as her "slip" (French for panties), but even though it was a Canadian slip that was very warm that she used in her cabin in Northern Canada, she was too cold to sleep.
After a good 5 minutes of thinking "that story doesn't make sense, if she's hitting on me it's too obvious and weird", she saw my confusion and asked me if I knew what she meant by "slip" (panties in French).
It turns out she was referring to her sleep, short for sleeping bag in English. In French we use the French word "sac de couchage". The pronunciations are identical.
So both French and Québécois has a lot of borrowed word, just not the same ones.
Je suis du sud du Québec et je l'aurais pas compris. J'ai jamais entendu sleep de ma vie pour désigner un sac de couchage.
So both French and Québécois
I like how you think your language is "French" and hers isn't.
Fair point I guess I should have said French from France or from the metropole? Pretty sure the term dialect can't be applied here.
In France nowadays French is a relatively homogeneous because of radio and TV, but when I was a child (40 years ago) old people in the alp valley I grew up in still used the local dialect, and it is way more difficult to understand to other French than Québécois is. It's closer to modern Italian but still far from it.
It's pretty dead now. I only know a few sentences and child songs.
Love the idea of extra warm Canadian panties
Yeah I was already picturing the fur.
Mmhhhh
Ha I enjoyed that tale. What happened after?
We didn't date but became friends. One or two years after we met, with a group of friends we went to Quebec with her and stayed at her family cabin that was very far north of Chicoutimi, near a small lake, and it was breathtaking.
There was another confusion though. She referred to going on the lake on the "ponton" (pier in French from the metropole). But we saw the lake and there was no pier on it. She was in fact referring to the kind of boat they have to chill on the lake. It was more some kind of draft : square, flat, with a lot of room to chill and no focus on going un a particular direction, which makes sense. It looks more like a pier than a boat, it was just not on the water when she talked about it.
Ah interesting. I think that’s what we call a “pontoon” which is just a floating…platform, that you move with an oar. Well, the barrel things under it keeping it afloat are the pontoons.
Languages. Funny things.
We call them pontoon boats in English.
Is KFC called that in France? It’s specifically called KFC in the states and not ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’ because the chicken is not actually from Kentucky.
The cooking style is "Kentucky Fried" not that the chickens are from Kentucky.
Correct, outside Kentucky it's just "Glistening Fried Poultry"
Yeah, it's just the logo, no one uses the full name.
Fun fact did you know that most French speakers are not French themselves?
The average French speaker is from one of France's old African colonies.
Imagine losing your national identity to the people you oppressed and they don't care about having it.
99% of English speakers aren't English. Same thing with Spanish.
They literally went from an empire where the Sun never set to be relegated to an island smaller than Michigan.. and they don't even own the whole island, they have to share it with like 3ish other governments.
The empire was British, not English, so those other countries that the English "share" the island with were a part of that.
What?