• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

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    8 months ago

    I met a man from France who said that the French spoken in Montréal is “real French.” I was pretty shocked to hear that.

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    8 months ago

    C’est vrai. Mais notre français québécois et nos accents se perdent. Principalement à cause de combien on s’est moqué de nous au fil de l’histoire et aussi à cause de l’Internet.