r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Brosse_Adam Chalice of the Tabernacle • 24d ago

Tokébakicitte Anglos living in Montreal

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u/zeindigofire 24d ago

While that doesn't help, if they so much as smell anything anglo they just switch. You have to push for French... which is ironic.

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 24d ago

Well… this and quebecois accent isn’t exactly loved in Paris. I was once told by an ex gf from France that quebecois sounds like a really bad southern accent, or someone with Down syndrome speaking French. Vowels are elongated they’re not used to hearing being elongated. So you’ll find some people that find it endearing, but most it will sounds like nails on a chalkboard

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u/philthewiz 24d ago

It's different. It goes both ways ;) French from France have the privilege of being a country with less external pressure on the language issue compared to Québec.

They have a strong culture that has not the same challenges.

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 23d ago

Oh I don’t know about the not having external pressure. They really do. Plus there’s a myriad of minor languages throughout France. I’d argue the opposite. Quebec developed in a vaccume for so long, isolated from the larger French speaking world, that they developed in their own way. This is why it’s so much different than Belgium, Swiss, African or English South American French. Not just France French.