Re: Judeo-Sanskrit/Bantu/Austronesian? Anglo-Quebec?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> >Steg Belsky wrote:
> >> Talking about French and Que'bec, i was wondering yesterday....what is
> >> Que'becois (sp?) French like, compared to French French?  Do they have
> >> different accents, like US vs. British English?
[etc.]

>         It depends. As far as I can tell, the difference of accent between
> Quebecois and metropolitan French is at least as strong as, say, the
> difference between London's English and Australian English. Sometimes, I
> fell that Quebecois are speaking a different language. Moreover, there are
> many differences of vocabulary. But as soon as a Quebecois begins singing a
> song, they lose part of their accent (sometimes they lose all their accent)
> and they begin singing like Metropolitan French. Very strange, but proves
> that we have basically the same language.
It's also sometimes hard to identify the accent is songs in English.
Some singers who are quite obviously British when they speak sound
just to me like Americans when they sing. But this is not always the
case; there are some singers which definately have a distinct accent.