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This is referring to the fact that after the French revolution the people of France changed the way they spoke to sound more like how the noble class spoke. The French in North America were isolated from this and maintained the “original” way of speaking French.
Nowadays, to a Quebecer, Parisian French sounds pompous and snobbish, while to a French person, Quebecers sound unrefined and coarse.
Parisian Franch sounds pompous and snobbish to other French. Although, it really depends which accent you’re talking about, there are several distinct accents coexisting in Paris nowadays.
Anyway, I really respect the effort of Quebec to keep inventing new French works.
Before the revolution, and for most of the nineteenth century there was hardly any common French idea. Like with most countries, community and tradition are recent inventions.
Graham Robb in ‘the discovery of France’ has the perfect analogy that a French dialect only carried as far as the nearest church bell. People a valley further would speak a different vernacular.
France treat French just like England treats English, we can fuck the language as much as we want it will still have our name on it 👌
All variants of French are real. Source: am pedantic linguist.
No version of French is real Source: this was revealed to me in a dream
I respect the inclusion of Haiti here.
I love the etymology of the word Cajun. They’re Louisiana Acadians saying Acadian with a southern accent.
Ooh la lá!
Zoot allors!Tabernac!
Who doesn’t love fishing in Quebec?
Fucks I could go fors a puppers rights about nowa.
Ew I’m not french. Get that crap east of ottawa outta here.
