Americans and Canadians

darwinstheory said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

mcgruff10 said:

Do people from Quebec look down on fellow Canadians when you talk English instead of French?

tha'ts mainly a rural quebec issue, but yes, I have HEARD they can be extreme dicks aboot it. in montreal they are all awesome, probably because many of them are not from there anyway, and those that are, they have such a massive tourism industry they'd be idiotic to turn therir noses up aboot it. 

what's really ironic is that, regarding language skills, I've heard people from France treat Quebecers the same way Quebecers treat English Canada. 

^^^^^ SEE?!?! You just did it right there! Haha haha :rofl:


Sorry, I could not resist. 

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

mcgruff10 said:

Do people from Quebec look down on fellow Canadians when you talk English instead of French?

tha'ts mainly a rural quebec issue, but yes, I have HEARD they can be extreme dicks aboot it. in montreal they are all awesome, probably because many of them are not from there anyway, and those that are, they have such a massive tourism industry they'd be idiotic to turn therir noses up aboot it. 

what's really ironic is that, regarding language skills, I've heard people from France treat Quebecers the same way Quebecers treat English Canada. 

Yes, I have personally experienced this. Many French-Canadians are super snobs about it, and they are RUDE. I lived with a French Canadian guy once, and we lived in a town where there were a few others of them from out of town, so he made friends with them. Even though they all were 100% fluent in English, they would all speak in French while I was there even though they knew I couldn't understand a word they were saying. Their attitude was that I was an asshole for not being fluent in French, so fuck me, they'd just speak french anyhow and leave me sitting there like an idiot, staring off into space. So fucking rude, it actually really tainted my opinion of French Canadians in general... I do assume some of them aren't like this, but this happened to me enough times with enough different people that I think I can say it's a fairly common kind of attitude. To be clear, this was in Western Canada, not Quebec or any place that has any French locals or anything.

HesCalledDyer said:

Meltdown99 said:

Worst part of Canada is somehow we ended with gun loving eh-holes as neighbours...

That's gun-loving, woman-hating, racist, greedy, obese, freedom providing eh-holes to you...

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

mcgruff10 said:

Do people from Quebec look down on fellow Canadians when you talk English instead of French?

tha'ts mainly a rural quebec issue, but yes, I have HEARD they can be extreme dicks aboot it. in montreal they are all awesome, probably because many of them are not from there anyway, and those that are, they have such a massive tourism industry they'd be idiotic to turn therir noses up aboot it. 

what's really ironic is that, regarding language skills, I've heard people from France treat Quebecers the same way Quebecers treat English Canada. 

Yes, I have personally experienced this. Many French-Canadians are super snobs about it, and they are RUDE. I lived with a French Canadian guy once, and we lived in a town where there were a few others of them from out of town, so he made friends with them. Even though they all were 100% fluent in English, they would all speak in French while I was there even though they knew I couldn't understand a word they were saying. Their attitude was that I was an asshole for not being fluent in French, so fuck me, they'd just speak french anyhow and leave me sitting there like an idiot, staring off into space. So fucking rude, it actually really tainted my opinion of French Canadians in general... I do assume some of them aren't like this, but this happened to me enough times with enough different people that I think I can say it's a fairly common kind of attitude. To be clear, this was in Western Canada, not Quebec or any place that has any French locals or anything.

in winnipeg there is a very large population of french canadians. many in my wife's side of the family. I have experienced this, but not in a "fuck you" type of way. it's more of a "this is my native tongue, and I forget there are non-franco's around me". as soon as they realized I was staring into space, they switched to english. 

I married into French AND Catholic. What the fuck was I thinking......

rgambs said:

Most people don't think they have an accent, but most people do have one.
Canadians say about differently, and South Park has nothing to do with it.  Bob and Doug McKenzie were abootin and hoserin around long before South Park existed.

dankind said:

rgambs said:

My region of Ohio doesn't have a dominant accent, we have a few.  We have the Pennsylvania Dutch accent and we have redneck, and our average non-Amish, non-redneck either has a Cleveland accent or none at all.
Midwesterners have less accent than most, but way more made up and alternate words.

Do they say perteneer where you live? My grandmother/mother/uncles/great aunt and all those other dumbass family members of mine from bumfuck Ohio say this, and I want to run my head into a wall every time they do so.