• @bratosch@lemm.ee
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    61 year ago

    I don’t get it. How is French an American language? I don’t understand the meme overall either

    • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      221 year ago

      French is spoken in France and parts of north America. Most people are very emotional about their native language so they feel every deviation of it is just wrong.

      The most common and seemingly natural view is that France French is “right” and oversea French is not but honestly it’s arbitrary. OP turned it around and so I did too, eventhough I myself live in a non French European country. Well, we all hate our neighbors and the enemy is my enemy is my friend I guess.

      • pancakes
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        201 year ago

        I’ve heard Canadian French is closer to the French France Frenched a few hundred years ago.

          • @someguy3@lemmy.ca
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            21 year ago

            Uh pretty sure protection of French language (and Catholicism) was agreed on from the start. Otherwise there would have been rebellions.

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                I’m responding to “tried to eradicate the French spoken there”. When they took over, I’m pretty sure they agreed to the French language and Catholicism from the very beginning. They didn’t try to eradicate it. Protection didn’t come from failed eradication attempts, protection was agreed to from the start.

            • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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              21 year ago

              Language, religion, and laws. This is why Quebec is predominantly French, doesn’t use British common law like America and the rest of Canada, and was predominantly catholic at a time when a lot of places required you to follow the king’s (or queen’s) religion.

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                And why a Catholic school board exists in the entire country. We’re far past the point it should be allowed to exist, but afaik it’s in the constitution and hard to get rid of.

        • @weariedfae@lemmy.world
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          101 year ago

          IIRC that’s correct.

          Kinda like how the American accent is closer to OG British English than the current British English pronunciation.