Re: CHAT: Nov 11th

Thomas Wier wrote:

>Matt Pearson wrote:
>
>> Thomas Wier wrote:
>>
>> >Moreover, that doesn't explain why peoples with mutually unintelligible
>> >and often totally unrelated languages, like the US and Japan or Canada
>> >and France, can remain the best of friends.
>>
>> LOL!  Yes, I'm sure many Frenchmen would consider Quebec French and
>> Parisian French to be "mutually unintelligible and totally unrelated"!  :-)
>
>Well, I shoulda put an "and/or" there :) -- but seriously there are
>*varieties* of Quebecois French that are unintelligible, or at least,
>that's what one of my Canadian friends (originally from France)
>tells me.  And I'm not just talking about /tsyb/ for <tube> here.
>Not to mention the not (as closely) related language which
>most Canadians speak -- English.
I know!  I'm an anglophone Canadian myself (by birth and citizenship
anyway, if not by upbringing).  I'm just giving you a hard time...

Matt.