Re: CHAT: Nov 11th

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"!  :-)
>
> Matt.
        In some cases it is! Personnally I understand Quebec French fairly
well, but I have the TV5 channel and there are Quebec programs on it, so
I get used of the Quebec dialect (I won't call that an accent as many
French do, as it is much more than that).

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