Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)

En réponse à "Karapcik, Mike" <Karapcik@...>:

>
>         Here in North America, ohhhhh, yes....
>         Almost everyone I've known from Canada claims the French view
> those
> from Quebec as evil degenerate troglodytes who exist only to bastardize
> "The
> Language". The one Canadian friend I've had who went to Paris ended up
> leaving Paris a day early. (He and his friend are Israeli-Americans who
> went
> on a walking tour of Europe before returning to the US. They only
> spoke
> Hebrew to each other in France so they wouldn't be pegged as Americans.
> It
> turns out, they had wonderful times in France. His Quebec accent only
> drew
> open hostility among the "in crowd" in Paris.)
Strange... when was that? I ask it because nowadays the Quebec accent is
actually liked by French people. They consider it funny, but in a positive way.
The recent invasion of Quebecois singers may be a reason :)) . Quebecois are
considered distant cousins who have to fight for their right to speak their
language against the English-speaking majority. They are not considered smart
(well, we can't be prejudice-free :)) ) but still worth meeting. And they are
known to keep French more pure against English loans than we do...

Christophe.

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