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Why is it a bad habit? I thought "ouais" was just like "yeah". Is it an urban/rural dialect difference?
by ramshorns 7y ago
Why is it a bad habit? I thought "ouais" was just like "yeah". Is it an urban/rural dialect difference?
- lazyasciiart 7y agoI knew adults who didn't like children saying "yeah", I think they said it sounded lazy/disrespectful? So maybe the same thing.
- yesbabyyes 7y agoI'm not familiar enough to say, but I guessed it's similar to what some other posters in the parent thread are saying: it's lazy and rude. This was also a family on the southern French almost-but-not-quite country side, and the son I was exchanging with had never even been to Paris, so it might be a metropolitan/country divide, as well. I grew up in the Swedish countryside, and we use a slightly different vocabulary from Stockholm, even though it's not far outside. Some words sounding more dated, less or different slang, less or different curse words. And again, I was there to learn proper French, and I guess Mme Picq wanted to make sure the French I learned was indeed proper. It made me happy to be corrected, and also her cooking made me very happy!