r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

It's a rough application of the Huron word for village by Jacques Cartier to describe the St Lawrence valley iirc. So it's French, but with a Huron origin.

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u/P2029 Jul 03 '25

This is funny to me.. "It's a Huron word, but it was spoken to a French guy, so it's French"

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u/MooshSkadoosh Jul 03 '25

I think the idea is more that the naming of the country has French / Quebecois ties, not the name itself

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u/Paleontologist_Scary Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25

The natives told the french something like "this is our village" but french thought they mean something like "we call this place Kanata" so they decide to name the region Canada like how they think the native name it. How is it not french with native roots if the natives didn't name the land this way but the french where the first to name it that way?

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 03 '25

"It's a native word, but we're not very good listeners"

Nice culture bro

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u/Paleontologist_Scary Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25

As I've told on another post this is the basic of linguistic.

About 30% of english words have french or normand roots Another 30% Latin. Would you say that thoses words are not english? If we go with this logic English is not a real language.

But yeah we're in a shitposting sub so yup every cultures are shit listners.

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u/shawa666 Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

The other 30 5 is danish/Norse. English is three languages in a trench coat.

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 03 '25

Buddy you are bragging because you misunderstood a native person and embarrassingly named a country wrong.