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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Also African French is its own impenetrable thing, too.

    All conflating its Ls and Rs.

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Seriously, though, Emn, are you just fucking around or are you genuinely curious?

    Meh. A tad interested. Are the cultures different between Quebec and the rest of Canada? Like, really different. Not 'California is different compared to Texas olol' different.

    They speak a different language, have their own film, music, and television industries that create content that no one else on the continent watches or listens to, have a distinct history being the descendants of French colonies on the continent, have their own cuisines, traditions, idioms, slang, and swear words

    so

    yeah

    Their own films and television? Quebec types all speak English and French but prefer French, correct? They're not so nuts that they refuse to learn English, right?

    Actually, most people aren't bilingual, no.

    its fucking embarrassing

    even sillier, when you go there and you actually hear what they call "french" youre like lololol jesus christ guys you might want to go to france and try that on them and see how they react

    This seems like an ignorant thing to say

    How France reacts to other dialects does not make one iota of difference to the legitimacy of those dialects

    Plus have you even heard someone from northern France? They're further away from standard European french than the most grizzled, honking French Canadian ever was.

    normally id be all like LIVE AND LET LIVE

    but after being there and hearing the amount of smoke they blow up their own asses about their french, including claims that it is "more authentic" i dont care

    fuck quebeecccoooiiisss nationlissmmmmmmmmm

    Fuck nationalism period. Quebecois or elsetype, yo.

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2013
    also there are obvs loads of nice quebec dudes and shit etc

    but even with most of them there was some reflexive nonsense of this type

    EDIT: the monoglot tendency in french canada was as bad as middle england little britain nonsense, and should be treated with the same level of scorn. LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

    surrealitycheck on
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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Quebecois nationalism is super dumb but you can understand how the constant pressure to homogenize with Ontario and the US esp linguistically provokes an overreaction

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    stop trying to erase their history you imperialist dogs

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Haitian French and creole is fucking awesome

    I often can't understand it but it is so musical

    Also old Haitian men have rad outfits

  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Seriously, though, Emn, are you just fucking around or are you genuinely curious?

    Meh. A tad interested. Are the cultures different between Quebec and the rest of Canada? Like, really different. Not 'California is different compared to Texas olol' different.

    They speak a different language, have their own film, music, and television industries that create content that no one else on the continent watches or listens to, have a distinct history being the descendants of French colonies on the continent, have their own cuisines, traditions, idioms, slang, and swear words

    so

    yeah

    Their own films and television? Quebec types all speak English and French but prefer French, correct? They're not so nuts that they refuse to learn English, right?

    ...

    why would that be nuts in a Francophone region?

    I assume he's thinking because if the majority of the country you live in speaks a language it might be a good idea to have a familiarity with it?

    Quebec is huge, though.

    It's not like we're talking about a dinky little area with a language quirk, where at some point you're going to have to interact in a language other than your own in the course of your day-to-day life.

    not really:

    map-2006-pop-density-canada-sz01-en.gif

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Quebecois nationalism is super dumb but you can understand how the constant pressure to homogenize with Ontario and the US esp linguistically provokes an overreaction

    yes, and it should be recognised as ridiculous (or at least the elements of it that manifest as this particular type of nonsense). its like the embarrassing us parents who dont want their children bilingual english/spanish. its such an insanely old-fashioned ape-man approach to identity and interaction.

    there are terrible strains in uk public thought of the same type.

    surrealitycheck on
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    i mean, right now, i have to admit, i'm defensive as fuck, i feel you guys are all attacking my culture and shit.

    i'm off now... Because i can't deal with this shit.

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Mood dramatically improved

    I'm so fickle

    It's the ADHD

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qag6w_Tp50A

  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Seriously, though, Emn, are you just fucking around or are you genuinely curious?

    Meh. A tad interested. Are the cultures different between Quebec and the rest of Canada? Like, really different. Not 'California is different compared to Texas olol' different.

    They speak a different language, have their own film, music, and television industries that create content that no one else on the continent watches or listens to, have a distinct history being the descendants of French colonies on the continent, have their own cuisines, traditions, idioms, slang, and swear words

    so

    yeah

    Their own films and television? Quebec types all speak English and French but prefer French, correct? They're not so nuts that they refuse to learn English, right?

    ...

    why would that be nuts in a Francophone region?

    I assume he's thinking because if the majority of the country you live in speaks a language it might be a good idea to have a familiarity with it?

    Quebec is huge, though.

    It's not like we're talking about a dinky little area with a language quirk, where at some point you're going to have to interact in a language other than your own in the course of your day-to-day life.

    No I get that

    But as someone who doesn't have a lot of patience for nationalism

    nationalism when you aren't even a nation irk's me even more

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Francophone

    sonne sonne sonne sonne
    francophooooooooooone
    sonne sonne sonne sonne
    francophooooooooooooooooooooooone

    :whistle: Frankin' ma phone,
    Frankin' ma phone. :whistle:

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Seriously, though, Emn, are you just fucking around or are you genuinely curious?

    Meh. A tad interested. Are the cultures different between Quebec and the rest of Canada? Like, really different. Not 'California is different compared to Texas olol' different.

    They speak a different language, have their own film, music, and television industries that create content that no one else on the continent watches or listens to, have a distinct history being the descendants of French colonies on the continent, have their own cuisines, traditions, idioms, slang, and swear words

    so

    yeah

    Their own films and television? Quebec types all speak English and French but prefer French, correct? They're not so nuts that they refuse to learn English, right?

    ...

    why would that be nuts in a Francophone region?

    I assume he's thinking because if the majority of the country you live in speaks a language it might be a good idea to have a familiarity with it?

    Quebec is huge, though.

    It's not like we're talking about a dinky little area with a language quirk, where at some point you're going to have to interact in a language other than your own in the course of your day-to-day life.

    No I get that

    But as someone who doesn't have a lot of patience for nationalism

    nationalism when you aren't even a nation irk's me even more

    Actually, Quebec is considered a nation-within-a-nation.

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    i mean, right now, i have to admit, i'm defensive as fuck, i feel you guys are all attacking my culture and shit.

    i'm off now... Because i can't deal with this shit.

    sorry dude

    i apologise

    i kind of went full retard there, my bad

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    i mean, right now, i have to admit, i'm defensive as fuck, i feel you guys are all attacking my culture and shit.

    i'm off now... Because i can't deal with this shit.

    sorry dude

    i apologise

    i kind of went full retard there, my bad

    i accept your apology, Scheck. it's not like you can help it.

    DAAAAMN! Did i say that?

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    stop trying to erase their history you imperialist dogs

    Never!

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    This is a strikingly good production still from Scrooged

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    21st growing some wicked sack

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Seriously, though, Emn, are you just fucking around or are you genuinely curious?

    Meh. A tad interested. Are the cultures different between Quebec and the rest of Canada? Like, really different. Not 'California is different compared to Texas olol' different.

    They speak a different language, have their own film, music, and television industries that create content that no one else on the continent watches or listens to, have a distinct history being the descendants of French colonies on the continent, have their own cuisines, traditions, idioms, slang, and swear words

    so

    yeah

    Their own films and television? Quebec types all speak English and French but prefer French, correct? They're not so nuts that they refuse to learn English, right?

    ...

    why would that be nuts in a Francophone region?

    I assume he's thinking because if the majority of the country you live in speaks a language it might be a good idea to have a familiarity with it?

    Quebec is huge, though.

    It's not like we're talking about a dinky little area with a language quirk, where at some point you're going to have to interact in a language other than your own in the course of your day-to-day life.

    not really:
    map-2006-pop-density-canada-sz01-en.gif

    It has a population larger than, say, Denmark.

    I don't see people queuing up to insist that the Danish are being collectively silly and should just learn German.

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    21st growing some wicked sack

    I take full credit for this growth.

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    21st growing some wicked sack

    i grew in every way in the two years i spent here. :)

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Seriously, though, Emn, are you just fucking around or are you genuinely curious?

    Meh. A tad interested. Are the cultures different between Quebec and the rest of Canada? Like, really different. Not 'California is different compared to Texas olol' different.

    They speak a different language, have their own film, music, and television industries that create content that no one else on the continent watches or listens to, have a distinct history being the descendants of French colonies on the continent, have their own cuisines, traditions, idioms, slang, and swear words

    so

    yeah

    Their own films and television? Quebec types all speak English and French but prefer French, correct? They're not so nuts that they refuse to learn English, right?

    ...

    why would that be nuts in a Francophone region?

    I assume he's thinking because if the majority of the country you live in speaks a language it might be a good idea to have a familiarity with it?

    Quebec is huge, though.

    It's not like we're talking about a dinky little area with a language quirk, where at some point you're going to have to interact in a language other than your own in the course of your day-to-day life.

    not really:
    map-2006-pop-density-canada-sz01-en.gif

    It has a population larger than, say, Denmark.

    I don't see people queuing up to insist that the Danish are being collectively silly and should just learn German.

    People might be able to understand them when they speak if they did that.

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    I'm reacting to this discussion precisely as a Metis should

    Indecision, self-doubt and hatred of the white man

    This reaction being nearly instinctive at this point pleases me :P

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    I went to Montreal with my ex a few times.

    She speaks French fluently, and I can do so haltingly, so we got along fine.

    But I usually would just speak English because I am lazy, and it worked for the most part.

    But then we went on a boat cruise and they didn't speak English at all and she had to ask the waiter for something for me and I was

    Seriously humbled

    That sounds hot. I wanna be the girl who has to put out at the end of the night after my date ordered and paid for me.

    She probably did pay, come to think of it

    And I probably did put out

    Yeaaaah

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    21st growing some wicked sack

    its fair enough there is no excuse for being a douchebag!

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Or for a possibly better example, in the "minority language within a country" sense: Flemish.

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    21st growing some wicked sack

    its fair enough there is no excuse for being a douchebag!

    there is no excuse but there are plenty of advantages.

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    But sersly, i'm off, gonna play some DragQuest9 and then sleep.

    Good night, you silly fellas.

    And have a tabarnak de bonne nuit.

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Let's get to twerk! The King in the SwampRegistered User regular
    i mean, right now, i have to admit, i'm defensive as fuck, i feel you guys are all attacking my culture and shit.

    i'm off now... Because i can't deal with this shit.

    Welcome to being a White Male Christian American, 21st.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    But sersly, i'm off, gonna play some DragQuest9 and then sleep.

    Good night, you silly fellas.

    And have a tabarnak de bonne nuit.

    darmok and jalad at tanagara when the walls fell to you too

  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Or for a possibly better example, in the "minority language within a country" sense: Flemish.

    yes and belgium nearly tore itself apart in civil war over that

    in the 1970s

    there are multiple ethnic-bargain systems all over the world, from canada to malaysia, and I tend to regard them all with quite a lot of scepticism. demographic changes always complicate things. sometimes it works. sometimes it detonates, a la lebanon.

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  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Let's get to twerk! The King in the SwampRegistered User regular
    It's good that there's a thread for r/atheism to shunt itself into now.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    Hopefully I never spend 10 and 1/2 solid hours in a classroom again

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  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    I mean, I love Quebec, and will defend passionately their right to their own "nation-within-a-nation"-hood

    And their own separate cultural identity, etc

    But the native half of me reacts harshly whenever words like "heritage" are tossed around

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Ugh.

    If I go to be now I might get four and a half hours sleep.

    I brought this on myself.

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    okay I finished reading this book of bodyweight excercises

  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote: »
    But sersly, i'm off, gonna play some DragQuest9 and then sleep.

    Good night, you silly fellas.

    And have a tabarnak de bonne nuit.

    darmok and jalad at tanagara when the walls fell to you too
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  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Also we did today all backwards, [chat]

    It's supposed to be political discussion in the morning, silly basement-dwelling game in the evening

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    okay I finished reading this book of bodyweight excercises

    So you're huge now right

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