Non-English music...

[Tarin]

QU

[Jack Frost]

I thought québéquois was French?

 

 

I don't have much experience with québéquois, my bad.

It is... But the little boy in the video is not singing in Quebecois. We make a difference between the French spoken by every French-speaking person (neutral kind of accent) and the French spoken informally by every Quebeckers.

 

Don't feel bad... I mean... I'm not trying to do anything... It's just that I found it weird how you categorize. It's a matter of dialect vs. standard language. Maybe we're more picky here when it comes to this because we don't say the people on Radio-Canada new stations speaks in Québécois, but the sitcoms on Radio-Canada channel, we do.

 

And why do you keep on spelling "Québécois" as "Québequois"? Are you trying to drive me insane? ¬¬' ;p

Edited January 9, 2010 by Jack Frost

[Tarin]

It is... But the little boy in the video is not singing in Quebecois. We make a difference between the French spoken by every French-speaking person (neutral kind of accent) and the French spoken informally by every Quebeckers.

 

Don't feel bad... I mean... I'm not trying to do anything... It's just that I found it weird how you categorize. It's a matter of dialect vs. standard language. Maybe we're more picky here when it comes to this because we don't say the people on Radio-Canada new stations speaks in Qu

[glomph]

The French don't admit that what is spoken in Canada is French or admit to understanding it.

 

In Paris I started watching a movie on TV. It was in French but also had French subtitles, which I thought odd, but appreciated, since I could make it out better having both. There wasn't tons of dialogue anyway, as it was about auto racing. I noted that the only discrepancy between what I read and what I heard was in the "cuss" words. The spoken ones were English, but were in French in the subtitles, e.g. "merde." I eventually figured out that the film's setting was Canada, and decided that the subtitles were for those who didn't want to admit to understanding Canadian French.