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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,977
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Just wondering, do Canadians say "mall" like the Americans or "shopping centre" like Aussies do?
    both. the one close to me is called St Vital Shopping Centre, but when people talk about where they are going, they either shorted it to St Vital Mall or just "the mall". 
    And sometimes they are also technically called "so-and-so town centre" on the signs, but hardly anyone says that out loud in my experience. They do indeed normally just change it to "mall" in conversation.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,969
    edited June 2018
    Canadians love Tom Cruise movies more than we do.
    (Take him, please!)
    ;)
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,118
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Canadians love Tom Cruise movies more than we do.
    (Take him, please!)
    ;)
    fine. you can have beiber then. 
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,969
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Canadians love Tom Cruise movies more than we do.
    (Take him, please!)
    ;)
    fine. you can have beiber then. 
    Well played
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Idk, I love the Mission: Impossible flicks.
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Just wondering, do Canadians say "mall" like the Americans or "shopping centre" like Aussies do?
    As others have stated, it’s known by both descriptors.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,663
    canadians and their dipthongs. smh.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,230
    I love visiting Canada.  Montreal at least.  I would love to live there in the summer LOL.
  • Longueuil
    Longueuil Posts: 2,224
    edited June 2018
    Get_Right said:
    I love visiting Canada.  Montreal at least.  I would love to live there in the summer LOL.
    Not today. It's way too hot (39°C or 102°F)
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,108
    Wow that's hot. In London  .uk today it's 27 and too hot


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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,230
    Longueuil said:
    Get_Right said:
    I love visiting Canada.  Montreal at least.  I would love to live there in the summer LOL.
    Not today. It's way too hot (39°C or 102°F)

    I can handle the occasional heat wave in exchange for being in that city.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,969
    Canadians are, on the whole, nice.  
    Americans are supportive of President Dick bag.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,663
    the couple of canadians I know can tend to be kind of snarky....
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,969
    I love you brother....but that is the proverbial pot calling the kettle black
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,663
    yeah, but I’m not scary like those Canadians of which I speak. :shiver:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Shopping Centre sounds better than mall.
    Here it's known as shopping centre but we never say that, we refer to the name of the centre.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    edited July 2018
    I haven’t been to many places, but of the places I’ve been, the only people nicer than Canadians were Minnesotans. Which may as well be Canada.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,969
    :lol:
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I haven’t been to many places, but of the places I’ve been, the only people nicer than Canadians were Minnesotans. Which may as well be Canada.
     =) 
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Truthfully... they're very similar.

    As much as I poke fun at America, I've encountered some of the nicest people one could hope to encounter anywhere on an individual basis. I've loved my experiences in California, Nevada, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and- most frequently- Washington.

    It's the collective whole where you can distinguish differences. Canada tends to be empathetic with the less fortunate and support mechanisms to assist people in need- regardless of circumstance. Likewise, Canada supports social programs like medical; whereas, many Americans tend to be a little less tolerant and a little less inclined to support social programs (I think socialism is a dirty word for many).
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