In Quebec it depends. In Montreal people say weekend, but in Quebec city they say "la fin de semaine". I pretty much think it's fin de semaine in most regions too. It's just that the Montreal metropolitan area is half the population.

I personally heard a lot of french people say weekend too, not fin de semaine.

It's a good name too. It cools and dries the air. Lots of people sleep on the drying part, when that's actually what Carrier designed it for.

It's also why you need to appropriately size your air conditioning. If it's undersized it obviously won't keep up with the heat. But if it's oversized, it may cool your space so quickly it doesn't effectively cycle enough air to control the humidity.

An abbreviation that sometimes needs clarification since Americans also became too lazy to say "Alternating Current."

Hypothetical conversation:

"Something something AC."

"Hmm, do you mean alternating current? Or air conditioning?"

Itallian restaurant :
Calls pasta, pasta.

Quebecois language police :
And I took that personally

Some Germans shorten "Die Klimaanlage" to "Die Klima" which is pretty close to "Das Klima", meaning climate.

Personally I prefer "Der Klimat" (with the t at the end) just to fuck with people, because everyone understands it but nobody likes it XD

My immediate thought. Even better it's the classic French "no that word is of the other gender". Le climatiseur, La climatisation, easy!

Because it's called aircon

Stick the air con on

Bob l'éponge

*au

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No, it's local, so it's the weather

I took a year of French in high school and recognize most of those words, so I can firmly say maybe.

It's real French but it is just as silly in French as if in English we would say "machine for controlling the cooling of air in the interior of the building", and nobody would use it. The joke about the language police is apt for the general behaviour of the Academie but not actually real in this case. French is probably less stupid than English tbh, although the rules about pronunciation vs spelling are over the top, at least they're still way more systematic.

I did 5 years of it and they call it la clim for short (pronounced cleem). Climot sounds very real to me as well, but I don't think it is.

i wonder which one was more successful 🤔

idk how much spanish people say "estreamer" but no one, and i mean fucking no one says "joueur-animateur" in french. we just say "streameur", because it turns out that you can’t really change a word that implanted itself into common usage, especially not when your proposed alternative is infinitely worse (somehow both too vague and too specific, and also too unwieldy to say)