Yeah, I just felt there was a disconnect between what I learned in school and what would have been useful living in Québec.
The confusion about vous always came from talking to younger kids that didn't know that I meant just them.
MacroCyclo
joined 2 years ago
That's funny. When I learned french in school, I learned the formal vous and when I went to talk to actual people they would get caught off guard and confused by me using the plural you instead of singular. It did not serve me well in the real world.
The same was true about anglicismes. We learned not to use any anglicismes, but then if you go to Quebec it is part of the language.
It's still a liberal minority (something cannot occur in a two party system). Our saving grace is our Francophone province that takes British America and mixes in diversity and culture. Politically, this means the bloq that are keeping us from either a Conservative or liberal majority.
Good shower thought and an interesting angle on boycotting the US. You just to use it as an excuse to cut out their products and call them dumb for still using such an arcane system all at the same time.
Exactly, and I think they should teach Canadian french. They don't teach british english.