I like to dunk on Quebec as much as the next guy but that's actually based.

Fin de semaine in France means end of the work week (Thursday Friday) whereas fin de semaine in Quebec means weekend.

Packaging having both languages on it is a federal level legal requirement, since we are bilingual. However, the stop signs are more a regional thing. If there is a francophone population in the area, and you're not in Quebec, you might see both on a sign. In my home province, we have the dual language signs wherever the French speaking population is large enough to warrant it, but everywhere else has English only.

In Eastern Ontario you'll see these signs along the highway that spell some safety message. They'll have sometimes 2 or 3 in a row to fully tell you the thing in english. Then you'll get the same signs again explaining it in french.

I’ll have to ask my wife if she can do that

Yeah I was already picturing the fur.

We didn't date but became friends. One or two years after we met, with a group of friends we went to Quebec with her and stayed at her family cabin that was very far north of Chicoutimi, near a small lake, and it was breathtaking.

There was another confusion though. She referred to going on the lake on the "ponton" (pier in French from the metropole). But we saw the lake and there was no pier on it. She was in fact referring to the kind of boat they have to chill on the lake. It was more some kind of draft : square, flat, with a lot of room to chill and no focus on going un a particular direction, which makes sense. It looks more like a pier than a boat, it was just not on the water when she talked about it.

Je suis du sud du Québec et j'ai toujours entendu ça... C'est pas juste au Saguenay, en tout cas.

pourquoi?

I didn't get the part about gosses?

Fair point I guess I should have said French from France or from the metropole? Pretty sure the term dialect can't be applied here.

In France nowadays French is a relatively homogeneous because of radio and TV, but when I was a child (40 years ago) old people in the alp valley I grew up in still used the local dialect, and it is way more difficult to understand to other French than Québécois is. It's closer to modern Italian but still far from it.

It's pretty dead now. I only know a few sentences and child songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKDSaeeGes

Combines à grand-manches

I mean presumably they don't spell it as anything because it's a dub.

English is already three or four languages fighting in a trench coat. So it's not hard to add new ones to the melee mix.

Honestly, lucky coincidence. I just thought it was funny the bear was speaking French.

In France, they call it le Macdoh

But how do you order a quarter pounder?

It'd be "Donken" in Sweden.

You joke, but I had a bunch of (northern) Italians recommend Pizza Hut to me. To be entirely fair, it was in Germany and it’s better there than in the USA, but it’s still not good pizza.

I'd say it depends on the restaurant tbh :3 some I think sound nicer in my native language, but some are airing really close to unfortunate naming

And yet Quebecois will stop you in the street and say "t'as une smoke ?"

Du footing?

Téléphone intelligent, not "smartphone".

Ordiphone, actually but it comes from one of the most shittiest french administration

a government body won't prosecute you if you don't throw a hissy fit about their human rights abuses. I never had problems with it, and they even have cool guides for you to avoid violations. We need to move on from that discussion

Yeah, no, that's not an argument. It doesn't change that the system is unacceptable.

And no, it's not just big American companies who are affected - in fact, they're affected the least. They have the deep pockets that small, local businesses don't have. And none of it changes the fact that the government has absolutely no fucking business telling anyone which languages they are and aren't allowed to speak.

I'm not sure why you're getting all the downvotes, you're absolutely right.

It's not even that, signs have to be mainly in French. Bar a few small exceptions, the English has to take up significantly less space than the French. Their stop signs literally say "ARRÊT" instead of "STOP" because that would be too much English influence. It's incredibly fucking petty.