Quotes and Jokes (11 Viewers)

[Lucky13]

Only more so!

Oh, sweet cheese and crackers!

 

[Frog]

Now you should post one comparing French, Quebecois and English. According to a Parisian living in the same apartment block as I did in Calgary in the 60's the Quebecois murdered the language (among other crimes against humanity).

Never trust a Parisian...

 

[Gnomey]

 

[cherry blossom]

After the young girls that Jeffrey Epstein supplied to his famous party guests had entertained them, Epstein would interview the girls to see if she has any dirt on the guest that could be used to entrap them.

One of the girls entertained Bill Gates. When asked what she had found out, she relied "not much, but I did find out why he named his company Microsoft".

 

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[special ed]

Now you should post one comparing French, Quebecois and English. According to a Parisian living in the same apartment block as I did in Calgary in the 60's the Quebecois murdered the language (among other crimes against humanity).

On a trip to Ottawa 1972 I went to a tavern/pub/beer hall where the folks were young French speakers. Although I can not speak French, what I heard was nearly identical to Cajun French in south Louisiana. Even the dancing and music was the same.

 

[don4331]

Now you should post one comparing French, Quebecois and English. According to a Parisian living in the same apartment block as I did in Calgary in the 60's the Quebecois murdered the language (among other crimes against humanity).

25 years ago, when I was working with a Parisian subsidiary, we had to get by on my high school French, because they would answer me. When my Quebecois colleague would attempt to converse with them, all they would do was correct his pronunciation.

I still regularly converse with a Parisian colleague and we always speak in English, so I don't butcher his "beautiful language".

 

[Greg Boeser]

2012 I took a temp job as a multi-lingual customer service rep. We were doing work for an american company that was doing business in Europe. I took calls from the german speaking countries as well as the UK. My customers seemed to forgive my language because they recognized German wasn't my first language, but my native speaking collegues got no such grace. The Viennese and the Swiss were especially indignant for being forced to speak Hochdeutch.

 

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[cammerjeff]

On a trip to Ottawa 1972 I went to a tavern/pub/beer hall where the folks were young French speakers. Although I can not speak French, what I heard was nearly identical to Cajun French in south Louisiana. Even the dancing and music was the same.

That makes perfect sense, as after the Louisiana Purchase many Creole relocated to Quebec, so it makes sense that the dialects would be similar.

 

[Greg Boeser]

That makes perfect sense, as after the Louisiana Purchase many Creole relocated to Quebec, so it makes sense that the dialects would be similar.

They had originally been expelled from the Canadian maritime provinces (Acadia) by the British in 1755. Settled in the Mississippi delta.

 

[CATCH 22]

That makes perfect sense, as after the Louisiana Purchase many Creole relocated to Quebec, so it makes sense that the dialects would be similar.

"Cajun" is in fact the wrongly pronounced word "Acadian", coming from Acadia - the French settlements on the Atlantic coast as mentioned above, mostly Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. If you search for the "Great Upheaval" you'll find more. It's interesting that some of the Acadians returned back to their former lands (e.g. from Louisiana), but settled in different areas. Creole and Cajun (Acadian) is not the same.

 

[Frog]

After D-Day, the rural Normans, hearing the French speaking Canadians, believed at first that the Allied had so well prepared the operation that they had even taught them to speak with the French Norman dialect.

 

[special ed]

The farther one gets toward the swamps and into the small southern Louisiana towns, the English language has a particular accent. When playing Skipbo cards, if my wife's aunt and cousin were on the same team, they would say what number, in Cajun French they needed, as if we couldn't understand.

 

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