What do France-French think of "French" people in Quebec?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time in Paris with a French Canadian friend, and people definitely looked down on her accent. Seemed similar to the way some Americans might view a Southern twang.

I presume similar to how awful the distorted Mexi-Spanish comes across in Spain. Literally don't even know what they're saying half the time.

Guess what? All extant languages are bastardizations of prior languages. Spanish spoken outside Spain is a descendent of Spanish just as Spanish is a descendent of Vulgar Latin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time in Paris with a French Canadian friend, and people definitely looked down on her accent. Seemed similar to the way some Americans might view a Southern twang.

I presume similar to how awful the distorted Mexi-Spanish comes across in Spain. Literally don't even know what they're saying half the time.

Well now the Mexican Spanish is the broadcast standard! I'm so glad there's less lithby lithby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quebecoise person here. Not french. Quebecers are charming but more laid back bordering on dirt baggy compared with parisiennes. I'd say more like spain or even portugal vis a vis france.

Albertan here.I love Quebecoise, and I totally get what you mean. But hey better to be compared to Parisians than Texans like us!

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I'm from Paris.

When I was growing up, no one talked about any of the French cultures not in the Hexagon, as mainland France is called. The most we knew about were the DOM-TOMs, or the overseas departments and territories, which are officially French, like the Antilles, La Reunion island, Guyane (where the Ariane rocket launches from), etc... Not places like Quebec that actually belong to a different country.

But as an adult I've noticed growing awareness of La Francophonie, or the global French language and culture used on different continents, regardless of whether these French speakers are citizens of other nations or not. And now French people from mainland France are a lot more aware of, and appreciate of, all the French-speaking descendants of French settlers in all parts of the world.

It took a concerted government communication effort over many decades and it's been successful. One of the few things France has done well recently

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time in Paris with a French Canadian friend, and people definitely looked down on her accent. Seemed similar to the way some Americans might view a Southern twang.

I presume similar to how awful the distorted Mexi-Spanish comes across in Spain. Literally don't even know what they're saying half the time.

What the f@ck are you talking about?

Mexican spanish is not distorted.

Your racism is showing.

- native Spanish speaker, not Mexican nor Spanish.

Mexican Spanish has a lot of slang or colloquialism. I learned Spanish from my Mexican friends, who only spoke Spanish at home. When I moved to the East Coast and met Spanish speakers from Central and South America and Spain, they didn’t understand some of the colloquialisms. It’s not bigotry; it’s a fact. It’s like an English speaking American in Scotland or Britain. The Brits and Scots have a very different accents and have different words for things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent time in Paris with a French Canadian friend, and people definitely looked down on her accent. Seemed similar to the way some Americans might view a Southern twang.

I presume similar to how awful the distorted Mexi-Spanish comes across in Spain. Literally don't even know what they're saying half the time.

Well now the Mexican Spanish is the broadcast standard! I'm so glad there's less lithby lithby

OMG this made me LOL. Same. I don't even speak Spanish and I even I get a little cringe flash when travelers say "Barthalona" and "Ibitha" even though it's truly just language evolution!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I read that the French spoken in Quebec is equivalent to what the English colonists spoke and that the language sounds more stagnant and old-fashioned to the French. Is this true? In any event, Quebec is beautiful and I was so envious and impressed how the Quebecois switched effortless between English and French.

The English colonists spoke English not French...

What?? You're kidding. The English colonists spoke English?? I had no idea.

No. What I meant is that French language stagnated similarly to what it would sound like if we spoke colonial English today, hence the word "equivalent" and not "is" or "was." In other words, Canadian French sounds like Ye Olde French to the French today.

That's silly. Why would the French language "stagnate" in Quebec, any more than any other language? Every living language changes over time.

You’ve never heard of this? The phenomenon where people of a certain culture who move elsewhere are less likely to change customs & language than the ones who stayed in the old country? The ones who moved want to hang onto their identity, so they don’t change much. Whereas the ones that never moved are confident of their identity & feel it won’t be jeopardized by customs & language evolving.

[Anonymous]

Probably akin to how British people feel about Aussies.

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Montreal has a higher percentage of beautiful women than any other place I’ve been.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read that the French spoken in Quebec is equivalent to what the English colonists spoke and that the language sounds more stagnant and old-fashioned to the French. Is this true? In any event, Quebec is beautiful and I was so envious and impressed how the Quebecois switched effortless between English and French.

The English colonists spoke English not French...

What?? You're kidding. The English colonists spoke English?? I had no idea.

No. What I meant is that French language stagnated similarly to what it would sound like if we spoke colonial English today, hence the word "equivalent" and not "is" or "was." In other words, Canadian French sounds like Ye Olde French to the French today.

That's silly. Why would the French language "stagnate" in Quebec, any more than any other language? Every living language changes over time.

You’ve never heard of this? The phenomenon where people of a certain culture who move elsewhere are less likely to change customs & language than the ones who stayed in the old country? The ones who moved want to hang onto their identity, so they don’t change much. Whereas the ones that never moved are confident of their identity & feel it won’t be jeopardized by customs & language evolving.

University students in Québec invented the French gender-neutral personal pronouns!

Learn some facts about a situation before you offer generalized commentary.

[Anonymous]

🖕 Quebec

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:🖕 Quebec

Haha why the finger?

I am a Montrealer and no longer live in Quebec because of the language politics.

[Anonymous]

The French Canadian accent is something I cannot get over. It’s like if you just speak French with the worst possible American accent. If anyone tried to speak like that in France, they would get continual looks of disgust. Why is their accent so bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The French Canadian accent is something I cannot get over. It’s like if you just speak French with the worst possible American accent. If anyone tried to speak like that in France, they would get continual looks of disgust. Why is their accent so bad?

Have you been to Louisiana

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The French Canadian accent is something I cannot get over. It’s like if you just speak French with the worst possible American accent. If anyone tried to speak like that in France, they would get continual looks of disgust. Why is their accent so bad?

Try to get over yourself because it makes you sound really ignorant. The point is they're not in France. They're in Canada with French Canadian accents -- not American. More than seven million people can communicate with each other using that accent. It's a beautiful thing.

If you really want to stay mad over nothing, take a listen to Newfoundland French. That will really flip your lid.