It's almost like they're trying to respect each other's differences ffs : 2northamerican4you

[–] GambaKufu@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The first version of this joke I remember learning of came from Scottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz:

"In 1991, Sadowitz was knocked unconscious by an audience member during a performance at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he mocked French Canadians, starting with the greeting "Hello moosefuckers! I tell you why I hate Canada, half of you speak French, and the other half let them."[27] The rarely quoted follow-up line, which Sadowitz claims is what actually led to him being attacked, was "Why don't you speak Indian? You might as well speak the language of the people you stole the country off of in the first place."[28]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sadowitz

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the last line that got him attacked. quebeckers get very, very angry when you remind them their role in the colonization of canada isn’t one of eternal victimhood to the evil anglos

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Things are complicated. For some Canadians, the country really sucks because of its history and how it was made. I'm a Francophone old enough to have lived through the last referendum on separation. I remember the dirty tricks.

And based on that previous history, we respect each other so much that to this day, after multiple attempts, we never agreed on a constitution and just pretend everything is fine.

Going back further, the French speaking part was conquered by England and eventually forced into a union where English speakers had more rights.

So "respect each other's differences" is relative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Solitudes_(Canadian_society)

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention this other piece of historical mutual respect.

EDIT2: I must seem angry for things that happened a few hundred years ago but as I mentioned, the constitution is still not fixed. And we should also mention everything shitty both the French and English did tonrhe natives. We do however tolerate and even respect each other through all this because otherwise we would still be in a perpetual state of war. Instead it's "just" political bickering.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

« Heille là là écoute-moé ben ma p’tite tabarnak… »

Tap for translation

"Listen here you little shit…"

[–] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a Canadian who understand a few bits and pieces of French I have to say that most Québécois people have been very tolerant with me and my (lack of) French (there are exceptions of course, but not going to judge everyone due to some exceptions).

Sure, things could always be better, and history has painful and bad episodes, but I see no reason to give Québécois shit for speaking their language.

So to whoever came up with the text in the pic: Esti de câlice de tabarnak!!!. Now please help yourself to an abundant portion of fresh steaming feces and enjoy it with a side of partially digested corn.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

As an American with terrible French I’ll say the Quebecois are a lot more patient than the French.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

its not cute to hate cultures

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

According to actual people from France I have known, it's not even "real" French. The way American English isn't "real" English.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But according to Les Québécois, their French is the real deal because people from France say horrible things like “le weekend” instead of the proper “fin de semaine.”

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

How do you say "eh" in French "le eh"?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Japanese actually has something that functions exactly the same as "eh" as an official part of their language (in the sense that it is taught as part of learning the language, whereas in English it would be more of an informal localized dialect feature). It is pronounced "neh".

Makes me wonder if that's somehow the origin of the Canadian "eh".

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Le Le Le.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

My eighth grade french foreign language book would probably say "n'est-ce pas" but I doubt anyone says that.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I once witnessed a Belgian and a Franco-Canadian together mock someone from Paris for his accent.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's the real joke.

Everyone hates the Parisians French but the Parisians hate for everyone else's is so much stronger.

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Parisian, partisan means something else

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't even realize it corrected to that. Thank you!

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I spent longer than I'd like to admit trying to figure out what partisan french was :p

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

Vive la France!

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

These actual people from France can go fuck themselves if they're serious. We québécois have done way more for the language than them.

Ou, comme on dit en français : qu'ils aillent donc chier, les osti de français.

Sorry, this is kind of a trigger, lol

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thats pretty much the answer I got from my French teacher one time, as a difference not that either isn't the real language I mean. Though she wasn't Quebecois or French as far as I know and it was a secluded school so was never sure if correct. All I know is I got up into first year university French course (may have been grade 12 equivalent) and could never understand anyone speaking French at random parties I went to....which would mostly be Quebecois... being Canadian and all. Mostly the talking speed it seems like all the words were spoken like cursive is written, everything melded together.

Mean as much as I hate how Americans spell words lazily (kill the u in ou words, spell grey wrong and make me get the wheel of fortune pc game wrong in the 80s, vana white was not well done) still their version of English.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The Wheel of Fortune thing gets me, too. I have the most recent one (pretty sure its the most recent, anyway) and it is made by Ubisoft's Quebec studio; a lot of normal American phrases and spellings are just slightly off in the game. Probably because it wasn't made by any Americans.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Half"

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I choose to believe you typed it from memory

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

I did not

[–] Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Half a shell

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, the French know how to keep their politicians in line. If anything more of us should be emulating them.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The French do sure. This meme is about French-Canadians. They are not the French.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but it's criticizing them for speaking French.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

Wtf in bigoted veiled hatred is this?

Fuck culture wars.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Definitly worse than having a pedophile as president, true that.

2 North American 4 You