Political Memes

Stop signs in France say “STOP” but in Quebec they say “ARRÊT”

Common sense:
Surely no one could be more up their own ass about being French than the French.

Quebec, for some reason:

I think we should translate all the fast food place names to the local language :3 this will help nobody or serve any purpose

It's funny from afar, but not fun to be in. They have what essentially amounts to a language police that enforces absurd and IMO human rights infringing laws. They regularly land in the news for things like threatening to fine a restaurant for using the word "pasta" on their menus.

Okay, (funny) story time.

I'm French and live in France. Many years ago I met a girl from Quebec (Chicoutimi), and in our discussion she told me that when she arrived in France, her first night the heating was off in her flat and it was very cold. She tried to sleep in what she referred to as her "slip" (French for panties), but even though it was a Canadian slip that was very warm that she used in her cabin in Northern Canada, she was too cold to sleep.

After a good 5 minutes of thinking "that story doesn't make sense, if she's hitting on me it's too obvious and weird", she saw my confusion and asked me if I knew what she meant by "slip" (panties in French).

It turns out she was referring to her sleep, short for sleeping bag in English. In French we use the French word "sac de couchage". The pronunciations are identical.

So both French and Québécois has a lot of borrowed word, just not the same ones.

Also, they dub The Simpsons into French separately in France and Canada, and while the European French dub is content to have Homer crave «les donuts», the Québécois dub gives no quarter to creeping Anglo-Americanisation, replacing them with a French pastry

That's very interesting but eastern Germany appearing on maps again worries me.

And it is fin de semaine and not 'weekend', too.

Duolingo only has Brazilian Portuguese

Is KFC called that in France? It’s specifically called KFC in the states and not ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’ because the chicken is not actually from Kentucky.

I hear you québécois in the comments, you have French words we dont have and I do think it's great. And when I watched your TV it seemed to be mostly French.

But when I listen to podcasts it's English words in every sentence.

Same is happening I France now, but we suck at English so it doesn't sound good. "Cette chanson est un ban-guhrr"

Also everybody started using "du coup" 10 years ago. Ainsi, donc, apres quoi, puis, car, puisque, etc... - > du coup

Fun fact did you know that most French speakers are not French themselves?

The average French speaker is from one of France's old African colonies.

Imagine losing your national identity to the people you oppressed and they don't care about having it.