Posted by headachequeen on October 8, 2004, at 19:24:57
In reply to Re: I don't know if it will work, posted by boomarang on October 8, 2004, at 18:25:45
> it is far more likely i will ever get to Quebec City than it is I will get to France. I would love to go to France...is Quebec French enough that i will feel i have been to France? hope i don't sound geographically impaired.
It will be a jumping off point anyway...
they are really distant cousins...
because the distance kept Quebec isolated from Europe for so long before the advent of radio and television and telephone and and and, the language remained pure actually for severally centuries...
for instance we grew up calling a potato une pomme de terre and had so many other references that had to be created because we had no links to the language interaction that France had with Europeans...
then of course we had other interactions with North Americans the French did not have...
we speak more of a language termed Joual than French...
in Paris they do not understand us at all...that is all right, we do not understand them either...
when I was in school in Ontario I used to get into such arguments with my French teachers because the French they taught was the France variety and would not get me a bus ticket when I was at home...
it would get me laughed out of the nearest depanneur though <g>
kat
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