Is KFC called that in France? It’s specifically called KFC in the states and not ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’ because the chicken is not actually from Kentucky.
Brazil has more people than Portugal (213 million v 11 million). France has more population than Quebec (69 million (66 million for Metropolitan France) v 9 million)
They literally went from an empire where the Sun never set to be relegated to an island smaller than Michigan.. and they don't even own the whole island, they have to share it with like 3ish other governments.
I'm French and live in France. Many years ago I met a girl from Quebec (Chicoutimi), and in our discussion she told me that when she arrived in France, her first night the heating was off in her flat and it was very cold. She tried to sleep in what she referred to as her "slip" (French for panties), but even though it was a Canadian slip that was very warm that she used in her cabin in Northern Canada, she was too cold to sleep.
After a good 5 minutes of thinking "that story doesn't make sense, if she's hitting on me it's too obvious and weird", she saw my confusion and asked me if I knew what a slip (panties in French) was.
It turns out she was referring to her sleep, short for sleeping bag in English.
In French we use the French word "sac de couchage". The pronunciations are identical.
So both French and Québécois has a lot of borrowed word, just not the same ones.
Joyeux festin, not "happy meal".
Stationnement, not "parking".
Course à pied, not "du footing".
Magasinage, not "shopping".
Téléphone intelligent, not "smartphone".
Also, they dub The Simpsons into French separately in France and Canada, and while the European French dub is content to have Homer crave «les donuts», the Québécois dub gives no quarter to creeping Anglo-Americanisation, replacing them with a French pastry
Not a big fan of hyper-nationalist culture policing. I like the malleability of American English, because we can just make shit up, and the points don't matter!
I think it has spilled into the rest of Canada too. I just spent a week in Alberta and every little thing that said "stop" also said "arrêt". But the only obvious French speakers I encountered were either tourists or government officials being intentionally accommodating.
On a more serious note I think Canadian bilingualism might exaggerate this effect. Everything sign and product package is printed in both languages so in a way or makes sense to spell things out in full English and full French. i.e. It would be kinda weird to print English alongside some kind of nonstandard Franglish.
Packaging having both languages on it is a federal level legal requirement, since we are bilingual. However, the stop signs are more a regional thing. If there is a francophone population in the area, and you're not in Quebec, you might see both on a sign. In my home province, we have the dual language signs wherever the French speaking population is large enough to warrant it, but everywhere else has English only.
It's not even that, signs have to be mainly in French. Bar a few small exceptions, the English has to take up significantly less space than the French. Their stop signs literally say "ARRÊT" instead of "STOP" because that would be too much English influence. It's incredibly fucking petty.
Related "fun" fact: Quebec is the most prolific user of the Notwithstanding Clause, which allows the Parliament of Canada or any province or territory thereof to "temporarily" override parts of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (essentially Canada's Bill of Rights). They know what they're doing.
With the trade war on, Quebec has been declared the good side. Whyever would you mention negative things about the good side? Are you on the bad side????
You joke, but I had a bunch of (northern) Italians recommend Pizza Hut to me. To be entirely fair, it was in Germany and it’s better there than in the USA, but it’s still not good pizza.
have you mad the French? they're mostly very much full of themselves and won't talk to you if you dont speak French.
yes, this is a gross overgeneralization.
When I was in Southern France the people could not have been friendlier. They struck up conversations and helped with my pronunciation. I never felt put down for not speaking perfect French. I have no idea where this stereotype comes from but I didnt interact with a single meanspirited person when I was there.
This has really changed the last 20 years or so, especially in the bigger cities. The part where they won't talk to you it you don't speak French I mean.
I dont know where the hate for Quebec comes from. Yes, they want to maintain a higher level of independence but they were literally forced into the country by military force. What's your excuse, Alberta?
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Is KFC called that in France? It’s specifically called KFC in the states and not ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’ because the chicken is not actually from Kentucky.
Correct, outside Kentucky it's just "Glistening Fried Poultry"
Duolingo only has Brazilian Portuguese
Brazil has more people than Portugal (213 million v 11 million). France has more population than Quebec (69 million (66 million for Metropolitan France) v 9 million)
Is that PFK thing true? That's dumb af.
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Fun fact did you know that most French speakers are not French themselves?
The average French speaker is from one of France's old African colonies.
Imagine losing your national identity to the people you oppressed and they don't care about having it.
99% of English speakers aren't English. Same thing with Spanish.
They literally went from an empire where the Sun never set to be relegated to an island smaller than Michigan.. and they don't even own the whole island, they have to share it with like 3ish other governments.
Okay, (funny) story time.
I'm French and live in France. Many years ago I met a girl from Quebec (Chicoutimi), and in our discussion she told me that when she arrived in France, her first night the heating was off in her flat and it was very cold. She tried to sleep in what she referred to as her "slip" (French for panties), but even though it was a Canadian slip that was very warm that she used in her cabin in Northern Canada, she was too cold to sleep.
After a good 5 minutes of thinking "that story doesn't make sense, if she's hitting on me it's too obvious and weird", she saw my confusion and asked me if I knew what a slip (panties in French) was.
It turns out she was referring to her sleep, short for sleeping bag in English. In French we use the French word "sac de couchage". The pronunciations are identical.
So both French and Québécois has a lot of borrowed word, just not the same ones.
Great, now I'm imagining a warm French slip.
Love the idea of extra warm Canadian panties
Ha I enjoyed that tale. What happened after?
And it is fin de semaine and not 'weekend', too.
Joyeux festin, not "happy meal".
Stationnement, not "parking".
Course à pied, not "du footing".
Magasinage, not "shopping".
Téléphone intelligent, not "smartphone".
Ordiphone, actually but it comes from one of the most shittiest french administration
https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8360216/telephone-intelligent
Looks like ordiphone is accepted, but I honestly never heard that. Everybody simply calls that a "téléphone" in Québec, and advertisements usually use "téléphone intelligent".
Yeah, I guess. I learnt it in a project subject during college, frow a teacher insisting that it's a bibliothèque and not a librairie for a .so
And yet Quebecois will stop you in the street and say "t'as une smoke ?"
Parce-que il a un flat tire...
Ouais c'était pas fun
Du footing?
My last flatmate said that. Took me some explanation to understand what he meant. So he had to explain to me what "running" is. Fun time.
Ngl the Quebecois one makes way more sense to me.
Also, they dub The Simpsons into French separately in France and Canada, and while the European French dub is content to have Homer crave «les donuts», the Québécois dub gives no quarter to creeping Anglo-Americanisation, replacing them with a French pastry
Not a big fan of hyper-nationalist culture policing. I like the malleability of American English, because we can just make shit up, and the points don't matter!
English is already three or four languages fighting in a trench coat. So it's not hard to add new ones to the melee mix.
Les beignes!
Stop signs in France say “STOP” but in Quebec they say “ARRÊT”
That's because France is part of the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals
They also translate "parking" as "stationnement" and "weekend" as "fin de semaine" while the French just lamely use the English words
I like to dunk on Quebec as much as the next guy but that's actually based.
I think it has spilled into the rest of Canada too. I just spent a week in Alberta and every little thing that said "stop" also said "arrêt". But the only obvious French speakers I encountered were either tourists or government officials being intentionally accommodating.
On a more serious note I think Canadian bilingualism might exaggerate this effect. Everything sign and product package is printed in both languages so in a way or makes sense to spell things out in full English and full French. i.e. It would be kinda weird to print English alongside some kind of nonstandard Franglish.
Packaging having both languages on it is a federal level legal requirement, since we are bilingual. However, the stop signs are more a regional thing. If there is a francophone population in the area, and you're not in Quebec, you might see both on a sign. In my home province, we have the dual language signs wherever the French speaking population is large enough to warrant it, but everywhere else has English only.
Common sense:
Surely no one could be more up their own ass about being French than the French.
Quebec, for some reason:
Tabernac!
Did you mean for this to resemble a polar bear up its own ass, or was that just lucky coincidence? Either way, it's a perfect use of the meme.
Honestly, lucky coincidence. I just thought it was funny the bear was speaking French.
It's funny from afar, but not fun to be in. They have what essentially amounts to a language police that enforces absurd and IMO human rights infringing laws. They regularly land in the news for things like threatening to fine a restaurant for using the word "pasta" on their menus.
I am legitimately curious what portion of the municipal budget is spent on having every fucking sign in two languages.
I am quite conflicted about it. On one hand, it's kind of hilarious. But it's also extremely tryhard and tedious.
It's not even that, signs have to be mainly in French. Bar a few small exceptions, the English has to take up significantly less space than the French. Their stop signs literally say "ARRÊT" instead of "STOP" because that would be too much English influence. It's incredibly fucking petty.
Related "fun" fact: Quebec is the most prolific user of the Notwithstanding Clause, which allows the Parliament of Canada or any province or territory thereof to "temporarily" override parts of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (essentially Canada's Bill of Rights). They know what they're doing.
I'm not sure why you're getting all the downvotes, you're absolutely right.
With the trade war on, Quebec has been declared the good side. Whyever would you mention negative things about the good side? Are you on the bad side????
Downvote deployed, take that, evildoer!
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I think we should translate all the fast food place names to the local language :3 this will help nobody or serve any purpose
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It'd be "Donken" in Sweden.
In France, they call it le Macdoh
In Quebec too, around here we pronounce it more like Mecdoh, but same-same.
But how do you order a quarter pounder?
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I've traveled the world and can highly recommend the Giardino degli Ulivi in downtown Tuscany. Best grissini I've ever had.
You joke, but I had a bunch of (northern) Italians recommend Pizza Hut to me. To be entirely fair, it was in Germany and it’s better there than in the USA, but it’s still not good pizza.
https://www.joeandpatsny.com/
Family owned pizza parlor in NYC's most Italian borough. Wins awards on a regular basis.
There's a frigging Domino's across the street???!!!
It will make them sound ridiculous(er) and help all of our healths
I'd say it depends on the restaurant tbh :3 some I think sound nicer in my native language, but some are airing really close to unfortunate naming
As someone who is within a ten minute walk from Québec, that's Québec!
Quebec is expatriate France
Quite the old map u got there!
"Gravis une marche dans ton jeu, France."
have you mad the French? they're mostly very much full of themselves and won't talk to you if you dont speak French. yes, this is a gross overgeneralization.
When I was in Southern France the people could not have been friendlier. They struck up conversations and helped with my pronunciation. I never felt put down for not speaking perfect French. I have no idea where this stereotype comes from but I didnt interact with a single meanspirited person when I was there.
This has really changed the last 20 years or so, especially in the bigger cities. The part where they won't talk to you it you don't speak French I mean.
That's not a gross overgeneralization of Quebecquers tho
Try speaking English in Quebec and you might get resistance but at least they know English.
Try speaking French in English Canada and nobody even bothered to learn the language. Hell, half of Canada barely speaks English properly.
Québécois are the most bilingual people in Canada, besides french New-Brunswickois.
I lived in NB for awhile. Costco was a cacophony of English, Français, and Mi'kmaq.
Yeah but Quebecquers != Quebecois
I’m pretty sure Quebecosis is a disease
I dont know where the hate for Quebec comes from. Yes, they want to maintain a higher level of independence but they were literally forced into the country by military force. What's your excuse, Alberta?
Plus it's cool and interesting to have areas that have their own culture, and not just Americanization. Like Alberta