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In the day to day spoken french in Quebec, you can hear also a lot English words too: check, game, lang, weird... There's a funny youtube video of a French Can

In the day to day spoken french in Quebec, you can hear also a lot English words too: check, game, lang, weird... There's a funny youtube video of a French Canadian girl who lives in France and compares the number of anglicisms in the movie "Starbucks" and its French remake (not sure why they did a remake) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Cw9ywW-TU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Cw9ywW-TU Video is in French but the movie Starbucks had way more anglicisms in it. Nothing scientific here but having lived many years in Montreal I can tell you that the French spoken in Quebec is far from being English free.

ekianjo 10y ago
Its not maybe used English free but I can tell you they have official french words for everything, while in French french there are many times no french equivalent words.
dorfsmay 10y ago
I'm originally from France but live in western Canada (which is predominantly english speaking). My understanding, from spending a few days in Quebec, interacting with people from there, and listening to lots of shows about the french language, there are two school of thoughts in Quebec: - one that french as to be pure, where pure means not a single word with roots that can be traced back to english. - one that borrows a lot of words from modern english, which are pronounced with an english accent (as opposed to english word adopted in France, which are pronounced with a french accent). I don't know where the line is drawn, if they are the same people in different context, or a social class, or just a conscious decision to adopt one vs the other, but all the jazz about language laws there seem to be coming from the first group. Also note there isn't a single version of the french language in Canada, but several across the country which is based on where the original people came from in France, and what influence that language has had over the past 400 years.

ekianjo 10y ago

Its not maybe used English free but I can tell you they have official french words for everything, while in French french there are many times no french equivalent words.

dorfsmay 10y ago

I'm originally from France but live in western Canada (which is predominantly english speaking). My understanding, from spending a few days in Quebec, interacting with people from there, and listening to lots of shows about the french language, there are two school of thoughts in Quebec: - one that french as to be pure, where pure means not a single word with roots that can be traced back to english. - one that borrows a lot of words from modern english, which are pronounced with an english accent (as opposed to english word adopted in France, which are pronounced with a french accent). I don't know where the line is drawn, if they are the same people in different context, or a social class, or just a conscious decision to adopt one vs the other, but all the jazz about language laws there seem to be coming from the first group. Also note there isn't a single version of the french language in Canada, but several across the country which is based on where the original people came from in France, and what influence that language has had over the past 400 years.