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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 185 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Québec has language laws that prevent businesses from using English in their advertising among other things, and some controversial rulings have come from it. One such ruling was the use of "le week-end". Québec was punishing businesses who used this term instead of "la fin de semaine". There was an interview done with an official from the language police where the interviewer had a dictionary from France which showed "le week-end" is proper French. The Québec official said "France doesn't decide what words are French. We do."

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

L'Académie française disagrees

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Prescriptivist jerks. Let's all dress up in $50,000 robes, call ourselves immortals, and pretend that we can control language.

[–] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

L'académie française deez nuts

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[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL the French Language Police is a thing

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

Il y en a deux ! Une pour la France et une pour le Québec mais la majorité des locuteurs du français sont en Afrique.

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never got this: why do people in France speak an American language instead of a European one?

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago

See, the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur...

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

French-Canadian from Quebec here: the same way an American will use a french word mid sentence to add a certain je-ne-sais-quoi

But they tend to go way overboard with them, ending with bastardized, barely comprehensible french. And they dare correct us when we use the proper french terms instead of the ones they abuse.

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[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get it. How is French an American language? I don't understand the meme overall either

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

French is spoken in France and parts of north America. Most people are very emotional about their native language so they feel every deviation of it is just wrong.

The most common and seemingly natural view is that France French is "right" and oversea French is not but honestly it's arbitrary. OP turned it around and so I did too, eventhough I myself live in a non French European country. Well, we all hate our neighbors and the enemy is my enemy is my friend I guess.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've heard Canadian French is closer to the French France Frenched a few hundred years ago.

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

IIRC that's correct.

Kinda like how the American accent is closer to OG British English than the current British English pronunciation.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's souppoused to be spelled prounounciautioun

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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once was at a work function where I saw a French-Canadian and a Walloon French (Belgium) mock the French spoken by a Parisian.

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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lived in both 'French Canada', and France at one point in my life.

In my experience, they all consider themselves the best thing France ever made and the other side are the equivalent of "rednecks"

To be fair, they both can be right.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair if you're used to "metropolitan" French then some Québécois accents can sound very "redneck".

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[–] cmder@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Xamith@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Why does that big Spain patch look like Ontario?

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[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Canada is home to the largest French speaking population in the world that has never surrendered to Germany.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think that is DR Congo. More french speakers than France.

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They made up for it by surrendering to the British and having their land sold to the Americans.

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you're not wrong, but the French in this country have made being a pain in the English-speaking population's ass their entire raison d'être since like 1760. They've been fighting a resistance war for like 264 years which is why I consider it a good roadtrip if I can get from Cornwall to Edmundston without having to stop. Beautiful province but a pain in the dick to even exist in if you're an Anglo.

[–] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

I'm an American anglophone that lives in Quebec for work and uh, yeah. These people are constantly fighting a culture war that nobody else gives a shit about or signed up for. There should never be language police.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's a very un-Picard-like Maneuver

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh please, Ontario is just a polite and liberal mini-USA

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if Ontario defines what "liberal" is, then we're doomed.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on where in Ontario we're talking about .... everything south of Orillia is basically the United States, between Orillia and North Bay is like the Ozarks, between North Bay and Thunder Bay is equal parts socialist and capitalist, and the entire France sized north is the chaotic frontier (I know because I'm indigenous and this is where my family is from).

Ontario isn't one mentality and every election cycle, there is more and more of a need to break up the regions because the south doesn't represent the north and the north is constantly in conflict with the south.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does Ontario only look liberal in comparison with Alberta?

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah real french is skipping french class and forgetting that quebec exists :)

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[–] Anarchie99@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Every french speaker is delusional.

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

true France is actually Cameroon

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are we talking the language? West of Quebec French is rare.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ontario has some significant pockets of french Canadians

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[–] noobnarski@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Look at stop signs in France and Quebec, then you know whats up.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I have a love/hate relationship with the people of Quebec.

It's mostly hate....

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Mon très cher « La manœuvre Picard », bien que je partage absolument votre avis ; je me dois, à mon plus amer regret, de vous informer que vous avez irrémédiablement et royalement fucked up votre carte.

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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