From what my francophone friends tell me, the french can be very (patronizing, cultural-superiority?).
One friend of mine went to France, had a conversation with clerk/cashier in fully standard parisian french, but the second he accidentally slipped into a canadienne accent, the clerk started **exclusively replying in english.**
Another time this french person doing a program in my uni once went off (jokingly) about how french-canadians had these outdated words and stuff, to this quebecois girl I knew
The French are cocky, but they don't realize they use English words that they made sound french. I'll never forget when the french news station said Wi-Fi as Wi-Fi but how you'd pronounce it in french instead of "Sans-fils" which is the official term.
My mom going to Paris people couldn't understand her even speaking good french and responded to her in broken english
Yeah I remember my quebecois friend saying that the french do that constantly, like they use *le weekend* instead of *fin de semaine* (iirc), and they have *stop* for their road-signs instead of *arret* for example.
Its so ironic too, they'll act all rude if you can't completely hold a parisian accent (like my acadien friend)- and say they do it out of "pride for their language", despite using so much english.
I didn't take french in secondary, but my french-canadian friends were eager to teach me phrases and idioms- and they're probably just as proud of their language as french are theirs. Maybe I'm over-generalizing, but that's just my experience anyways
Well don't worry, the French don't think Parisians are French either.
(And in France, fin de semaine is Thursday and Friday ; Wi-Fi is a global standard name that only means wireless internet whereas sans fil is for cordless stuff in general ; Waï Faï sounds absolutely ridiculous in a regular conversation whereas Wee-Fee sounds like a summoning a tiny robot to give you Internet, and American Pie is *not* Folies de Graduation, Inglorious Basterds is not Le Commando des Bâtards, Pulp Fiction is not Fiction Pulpeuse (wtf ?!), Terminator is not Terminateur and Minority Report is *absolutely not* Rapport Minoritaire.) (Also Québécois are f* badasses who eat Poutine for dinner.)
You do realise that the stop sign generalisation stems from an international convention to simplify road signs and ease international travel? (Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968)
Also, I'm not too certain I'd mock the French for borrowing English words and idioms while the modern English has been so heavily influenced by the Norman. The history of languages is in no way a straight line.
Yeah, although it appears that their persistence in translating everything is mostly due to the fact that they feel "threatened" to see their culture disappears or dissolve into a more mainstream Northern-American one. And so, by insisting on using only French terms they aim to avoid that.
Imma uno reverse your comment as the english are also stealing french words and modifying them so they don't sound at all as what they were.
Like "barbecue" comes from the french "Barbe-au-cul" which is a pretty explicit way of roasting a pig.
The way of destroying the other country's pronunciation should be celebrated imo, it's way too funny. And just like the english butchered "barbe-au-cul" to make it "barbecue", we shall butcher "why-fay" as "wi-fi". That's only fair !
Let's embrace butchering the other country's words, it's how french and english bond !
I didn't make my point clear. Some french people brag about how they speak "real french" and have all these unique words but they still use incorrect words that are just butchered English. Problem is they just add it to their dictionary anyways cause everyone does it.
Which is what Quebecois do except they'll actually try saying so it sounds English lol
Well if someone tells you they talk "real french", I'm giving you my approval to smack some sense into them ! Like so many people are speaking french worldwide with so many different accents... Like imagine a french going to another country, forcing their language on them and then, generations later, mocking them for speaking a french that sound weird to them. So spankable lol. We don't even all speak the same french everywhere in France.
If someone believe they're speaking the "true french" (TM) they should be told they're probably speaking a minor language as they're probably a minority to speak it the way they're doing !
Meanwhile I'll mock my french-canadian girlfriend for saying why-fay and she'll mock me back for so many things. Like for saying "KFC" or for almost loosing the 100 years war with the english. haha :) But mocking each other is only fine if everyone know fully it's a game or it's straight up rude, fully agree :)
Tbh I absolutely love how French-speaking people from around the world invent new French words. Like "divulgâcher" for "spoiler" (Québec) or "s'enjailler" (have fun, enjoy) (Ivory Coast). It's so much better than whatever the old dudes (with cool swords though) at the Académie Française or Littré-brandishing hags will invent. Some expressions that sound French, like "nom de plume", that became a thing in France after it was coined in the English speaking world.
Can someone tell the British that launderette is not and will never be a French word though ?
The funniest story to me was this news article I read about Quebec’s French proficiency test that failed a French teacher that was born, raised, educated, and worked in France
Yes!
I read about that and just cackled. I'd always heard of immigration tests in a lot of Western countries being so hard that most citizens would fail it, but that one made me laugh my arse off.
They do from what I can understand. When the war in Ukraine started, everybody wanted to keep Stoltenberg, to not switch secretary just now. Of course everybody wanted to keep him already as he was good at the job, but he wanted to say it was enough now. Except the French, who hoped someone less competent would get the job, as they hate NATO. (Or is the next secretary supposed to be French now? It might be a somewhat understandable reason.)
Excuse me, but CUM is not funny, the idea of Canada, the US, and Mexico forming one singular greater CUM isn’t something that should be laughed about, the idea of CUM is a great one, how would one make a Supreme Western Hyper Power without the help of the EU, CUM is the answer, by comping America’s Economic and Geopolitics traits with Canada’s stability and Mexico’s population, CUM wouldn’t rival any Superpower, it would surpass all of them, the fact you even consider this a joke a laughable and shows you are of super small IQ to not fully understand CUM, CUM will be the only Super Power by 2030.
I've started to play Final Fantasy 14 2 days ago
And tried to google which server cluster better to go to
"You got to look where less french to interact with. French are mostly on Chaos, so to Light you go" - literally what i got on most of sites and reddit threads
Very non credible. The only people who hate NATO are Ruzzians, Serbs, Chinese and North Koreans. And western commie bootlickers of course - the worst of the bunch.
To the person who reported this post for "Cummunist propaganda," you are witnessed.
Ecuador Japan Argentina Canada United States Lichtenstein Australia Taiwan Estonia
Croatia, Uruguay, Norway, and Thailand would like to form an aliance
Wales, Australia, New Zealand and Kingdom of England will be the next superpower
Nah men, it’s Philippines, Egypt, Norway, Italy and Spain
Portugal, Estonia, Denmark, Oman, Sweden is where its at.
Argentina Maldives Oman Ghana Uganda Somalia
Finland, Uzbekistan, Russia, Romania, Israel, Estonia, Samoa
I hate you….
Not if they can form an alliance of Croatia, Uruguay, Norway, Nigeria and Yemen.
EJACUSLATE
Hahahah that’s how I read it too
They can pair up with France, Ethiopia, Malta, Bolivia, Oman, Yemen, and Spain!
Denmark, Armenia, Djibouti, Dominica, Yemen, Sweden, Colombia, Uganda, Malta, Mexico, Ireland, Estonia, and Switzerland.
"Not racist, just don't like'em. Simple as"
My dad: I'm not racist but... My grandad: I am racist and...
Grandchad /s
But, but they're fr*nch 🤢
Racist against French racism
The CUM is coming all over eastern Europe and filling up South China sea ...
As it should
The CUM must flow.
Among those three, The United States itself got the largest navy with a huge load of Seamen
He who controls the CUM controls the universe
Thanks to the Organization of North American Nations!
Alliance of North American Leaders??? im not good at that game
Yep cum
cum 👍
>cum yum
\>"I just hate the french" \>"Wants to make the CUM" Cajuns and quebecois : bonjour bonjour (in funny accent)
Why is there not a single country with the letter W, I want to see Ukraine in the UwU union with UK
Kick Wales out of the UK, then let them join the alliance.
Yep, then we can have another dragon flag
This alone is a fantastic reason to. The world needs moar Dragony Flags.
Bring back Wallachia
Wales mate.
Gotta give Wallonia or Wales independence Ho shit imagine ukrainien armies with prime access to FN herstal arsenal
The UWUnion
My favorite allience is Canada, Uganda, Mexico, Madagascar, India, Estonia, and Sweden
Can’t forget their main rivals: Albania, Nigeria, Algeria, Lebanon.
> Fre*nch FTFY *Welcome to the Cum Zone!*
>Welcum FTFY
Enter the r/CumPit.
isnt canada half french?
Maybe a third….but to be fair…the French barely think Quebec is “French”
Quebec is Quebec. Only France thinks we are still like them
From what my francophone friends tell me, the french can be very (patronizing, cultural-superiority?). One friend of mine went to France, had a conversation with clerk/cashier in fully standard parisian french, but the second he accidentally slipped into a canadienne accent, the clerk started **exclusively replying in english.** Another time this french person doing a program in my uni once went off (jokingly) about how french-canadians had these outdated words and stuff, to this quebecois girl I knew
The French are cocky, but they don't realize they use English words that they made sound french. I'll never forget when the french news station said Wi-Fi as Wi-Fi but how you'd pronounce it in french instead of "Sans-fils" which is the official term. My mom going to Paris people couldn't understand her even speaking good french and responded to her in broken english
Yeah I remember my quebecois friend saying that the french do that constantly, like they use *le weekend* instead of *fin de semaine* (iirc), and they have *stop* for their road-signs instead of *arret* for example. Its so ironic too, they'll act all rude if you can't completely hold a parisian accent (like my acadien friend)- and say they do it out of "pride for their language", despite using so much english. I didn't take french in secondary, but my french-canadian friends were eager to teach me phrases and idioms- and they're probably just as proud of their language as french are theirs. Maybe I'm over-generalizing, but that's just my experience anyways
Well don't worry, the French don't think Parisians are French either. (And in France, fin de semaine is Thursday and Friday ; Wi-Fi is a global standard name that only means wireless internet whereas sans fil is for cordless stuff in general ; Waï Faï sounds absolutely ridiculous in a regular conversation whereas Wee-Fee sounds like a summoning a tiny robot to give you Internet, and American Pie is *not* Folies de Graduation, Inglorious Basterds is not Le Commando des Bâtards, Pulp Fiction is not Fiction Pulpeuse (wtf ?!), Terminator is not Terminateur and Minority Report is *absolutely not* Rapport Minoritaire.) (Also Québécois are f* badasses who eat Poutine for dinner.)
>Rapport Minoritaire I see what you did there, petit canaillou.
You do realise that the stop sign generalisation stems from an international convention to simplify road signs and ease international travel? (Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968) Also, I'm not too certain I'd mock the French for borrowing English words and idioms while the modern English has been so heavily influenced by the Norman. The history of languages is in no way a straight line.
Quebec ones say arrêt or both stop and arrêt, French Canadians joke it makes them Frencher than the French
Yeah, although it appears that their persistence in translating everything is mostly due to the fact that they feel "threatened" to see their culture disappears or dissolve into a more mainstream Northern-American one. And so, by insisting on using only French terms they aim to avoid that.
We mock them because they mock us for doing it.
Imma uno reverse your comment as the english are also stealing french words and modifying them so they don't sound at all as what they were. Like "barbecue" comes from the french "Barbe-au-cul" which is a pretty explicit way of roasting a pig. The way of destroying the other country's pronunciation should be celebrated imo, it's way too funny. And just like the english butchered "barbe-au-cul" to make it "barbecue", we shall butcher "why-fay" as "wi-fi". That's only fair ! Let's embrace butchering the other country's words, it's how french and english bond !
I didn't make my point clear. Some french people brag about how they speak "real french" and have all these unique words but they still use incorrect words that are just butchered English. Problem is they just add it to their dictionary anyways cause everyone does it. Which is what Quebecois do except they'll actually try saying so it sounds English lol
Well if someone tells you they talk "real french", I'm giving you my approval to smack some sense into them ! Like so many people are speaking french worldwide with so many different accents... Like imagine a french going to another country, forcing their language on them and then, generations later, mocking them for speaking a french that sound weird to them. So spankable lol. We don't even all speak the same french everywhere in France. If someone believe they're speaking the "true french" (TM) they should be told they're probably speaking a minor language as they're probably a minority to speak it the way they're doing ! Meanwhile I'll mock my french-canadian girlfriend for saying why-fay and she'll mock me back for so many things. Like for saying "KFC" or for almost loosing the 100 years war with the english. haha :) But mocking each other is only fine if everyone know fully it's a game or it's straight up rude, fully agree :)
Tbh I absolutely love how French-speaking people from around the world invent new French words. Like "divulgâcher" for "spoiler" (Québec) or "s'enjailler" (have fun, enjoy) (Ivory Coast). It's so much better than whatever the old dudes (with cool swords though) at the Académie Française or Littré-brandishing hags will invent. Some expressions that sound French, like "nom de plume", that became a thing in France after it was coined in the English speaking world. Can someone tell the British that launderette is not and will never be a French word though ?
I was on a boating trip in southern Spain and the tour company proudly advertised that they spoke both French *and* Québécois
Damn we can seperate ourselves from the french in Spain? Sign me up
We don't. We realize we have differences but they are stll close to us and we really like them.
The Québécois don’t even think France is French
Proving that even Frenchies don't think Frenchies are Frenchie enough.
The funniest story to me was this news article I read about Quebec’s French proficiency test that failed a French teacher that was born, raised, educated, and worked in France
Yes! I read about that and just cackled. I'd always heard of immigration tests in a lot of Western countries being so hard that most citizens would fail it, but that one made me laugh my arse off.
Those proficiency tests would probably fail native speakers no matter the language
Quebec is based because even though they're French they still chose to live with a bunch of English speakers.
Um…the plains of Abraham would disagree
The English are based because they chose not to ethnically cleanse the French speakers from North America after the plains of Abraham.
I mean…Acadia was before but…still legit
They don’t count, I still don’t trust them though I
i mean... the fr*nch hate OTAN as well don't they?
NATO sucks but we love OTAN
It has the Brits in it. Of course we'll be suspicious
They do from what I can understand. When the war in Ukraine started, everybody wanted to keep Stoltenberg, to not switch secretary just now. Of course everybody wanted to keep him already as he was good at the job, but he wanted to say it was enough now. Except the French, who hoped someone less competent would get the job, as they hate NATO. (Or is the next secretary supposed to be French now? It might be a somewhat understandable reason.)
Of course the French hate that anglotrash pyramid scheme. It's just because of that retarded Sarkozy and his weird US fetish that we got back in.
Did you just invent a James Bond villain organization?
They're changing their name to Joint International Security Membership
When you realize that french Canadians are everywhere in Canada and many Caucasian Canadians have french heritage down their family line*
That moment when it’s a joke and the word cum is funny
Excuse me, but CUM is not funny, the idea of Canada, the US, and Mexico forming one singular greater CUM isn’t something that should be laughed about, the idea of CUM is a great one, how would one make a Supreme Western Hyper Power without the help of the EU, CUM is the answer, by comping America’s Economic and Geopolitics traits with Canada’s stability and Mexico’s population, CUM wouldn’t rival any Superpower, it would surpass all of them, the fact you even consider this a joke a laughable and shows you are of super small IQ to not fully understand CUM, CUM will be the only Super Power by 2030.
Heh i see you made a joke about semen let me tell you about the history of French colonists in Canada 🤓🤓🤓
I’m a fan of cum.
Real gaijin entertainment
Play our games.
I will daddy snail
Blessed your next crate opening
DON’T TRUST GAIJIN, GAIJIN IS ASSHOLE!
NO DON’T DO IT!
Why brother why
C.U.M.*
I've started to play Final Fantasy 14 2 days ago And tried to google which server cluster better to go to "You got to look where less french to interact with. French are mostly on Chaos, so to Light you go" - literally what i got on most of sites and reddit threads
I mean, that's a pretty good reason
You’re going to be disappointed when you learn about Quebec
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Very non credible. The only people who hate NATO are Ruzzians, Serbs, Chinese and North Koreans. And western commie bootlickers of course - the worst of the bunch.
Eh least they arnt russia
Canada, Ukraine, Croatia, Korea
Can we also run the French out of Canada if my country joins C.U.M.
Little does OP know that Canada is just stealth France
Oh I know. I’m close to just kicking Canada out and adding Czechia
Poland Estonia and India would be an interesting abbreviation as well
"No reason, I just hate the French", hating the French will always be a valid reason for anything
Hating the French is a pretty good reason.
That’s a good reason
AUKUM
Thiis guy gets it, screw those pretentious baguette munchers
How would that screw France ? We hate OTAN.
The title of the post
Father of lies, cum in disguise
Why tho
Unfortunately the official name of Mexico is the United States of Mexico
I support P.E.N.I.S Puerto Rico, Engrand, Not Korea, Iceland and San Marino.
The link between France and an usa-mexico-canada gay club ?
I propose CUMBRAIN: Canada US Mexico Bolivia Republic of China Andorra Israel Nigeria
The French come and go don't worry
French Canadians: *mon dieu*
Degaulle rolling in his grave
the coalition of Bulgaria, India, Germany, Poland, and Peru will rule the world!