First thing I learned in French Class in Canada when I was a kid...

puis aller a la toilette svp 🤣

Also comsi comsa was a very good response to most things Madame was saying

That is what I remember most about Canadian Bilingualism in school, also we all had a crush on our French Teacher back then, she was cool and listened to The Police

Edited June 25, 20214 yr by Matthew Kane

Northerners come to rural Florida and think we all speak Yankee. How very wrong they are. 🤣

In France, French has been homogenized by 150 years of public education. Slight regional accents but barely any dialects or regional idiomatisms. Except in the low cost housing when North African and African populations speak « their » French .

The English is much less homogenized in Great Britain than the French is in France.

I would add that the dereliction of the education system has  created a generation of poorly educated youngsters unable to speak or write a proper French, theirs being often heavily laced with English words (doesn’t mean that they speak English...). The French internet and, unfortunately, radio and tv,  can be really taxing sometimes. 

In Quebec, educated people speak a perfectly understandable French close to mine with some idiomatisms. And a cute and great accent. Less educated people are less understandable , a more heavily accented French influenced by English and by the language spoken by 18th century Western France peasants and sailors.I was once on my way from Montreal to Quebec and had to get gas. The young guy at the highway service station came out to greet and told me... something. It took me a couple of seconds to understand that he was telling me that I should put on my coat on as it was minus 17° 😁. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 26, 20214 yr by Dominique_K

@Dominique_K Tabarnak poigne ta tuque et tes mitaines, icit y fait frette en ostie mon chum! 

Edited June 26, 20214 yr by RXP

4 minutes ago, RXP said:

@Dominique_K Tabarnak poigne ta tuque et tes mitaines, icit y fait frette en ostie mon chum! 

I see you are well assimilated Jean-Luc 🤣

8 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

I see you are well assimilated Jean-Luc

Resistance is futile... 

Edited June 26, 20214 yr by RXP

20 hours ago, RXP said:

@Dominique_K Tabarnak poigne ta tuque et tes mitaines, icit y fait frette en ostie mon chum! 

🤣🤣🤣

I love it !!!
Good luck, Google, to translate this 😉

Pascal

42 minutes ago, Pascal_LSGC said:

🤣🤣🤣

I love it !!!
Good luck, Google, to translate this 😉

Pascal

Tabarnak takes hold of your tuque and your mittens, here is fret in ostie my boyfriend!

 

2 hours ago, Pascal_LSGC said:

Good luck, Google, to translate this 😉

This is a good point indeed, which made me wondering with the following:

The famous Greek citation by Xenophon which goes by:
"Ouk élabon polin, alla gar elpis éphè kaka" 

which translates roughly to:
"They did not capture the city, since they didn't have a hope of taking it"

but reads literally differently If you're French 

A few more Latin examples:
"Caesarem legato alacrem eorum"
"Sumpti dum est hic apportavit legato alacrem eorum"

Edited June 27, 20214 yr by RXP

On 6/26/2021 at 8:29 AM, Dominique_K said:

In France, French has been homogenized by 150 years of public education.

How successful is the Académie française in maintaining the French language these days? Is anglicising the only problem or are other languages creeping in?

34 minutes ago, RXP said:

A few more Latin examples:

The only Latin I remember is "Caesar adsum iam forte" which was translated incorrectly as "Caesar had some jam for tea." I was never very good at Latin.

30 minutes ago, dmwalker said:

How successful is the Académie française in maintaining the French language these days? Is anglicising the only problem or are other languages creeping in?

Beside the overuse of English words in the medias and marketing, the woke crowd, copycatting its US counterpart, tries to impose a new ludicrous and cumbersome « inclusive » spelling, genre neutral🤦‍♂️.

The Académie does its best I suppose but is hardly audible. It has condemned the inclusive spelling which has no future anyway. 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

It has condemned the inclusive spelling which has no future anyway. 

Ruquier was once saying about this "l'écriture inclusive c'est quand tous les cons sont des con.ne.s". Je suis d'accord.. c'est illisible!

7 minutes ago, RXP said:

Ruquier was once saying about this "l'écriture inclusive c'est quand tous les cons sont des con.ne.s". Je suis d'accord.. c'est illisible!

Not only  illegible. Obnoxious too.  We know, since Orwell I guess, that the manipulation of language is never innocent.

Edited June 27, 20214 yr by Dominique_K

2 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

We know, since Orwell I guess, that the manipulation of language is never innocent.

May I remind you that the biggest Orwellian language control ever is done by the "Académie française", with centuries of conservatism ?

But, I guess, one only cries wolf when the political side he doesn't agree with does something.
I see this pattern a little too often these days.

Pascal

Edited June 27, 20214 yr by Pascal_LSGC