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>You're from Quebec and don't feel at ease using only French words? Don't worry! French Rust is fully compatible with English-Rust, so you can mix both at your
by desdiv 5y ago
>You're from Quebec and don't feel at ease using only French words? Don't worry! French Rust is fully compatible with English-Rust, so you can mix both at your convenience.
Interesting factoid: in France, most of the stop signs say "stop" due to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals linked below.
In Québec, on the other hand, most of the stop signs say "Arrêt" due to nationalism reasons. Bilingual Arrêt/Stop signs exist, but are rare.
- wutwutwutwut 5y ago> Interesting factoid: in France, most of the stop signs say "stop", since it's a perfectly valid word in French. Here's another interesting fact which I suspect is more of a fact than "your" fact: Almost all countries in Europe has stop signs with the word "Stop" because it was agreed upon in 1968. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Signs_and_Signals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Si...
- desdiv 5y agoThank you. I did not know that before. I've corrected my OP.
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- Mikeb85 5y agoWell 'stopper' is now a valid French word. No idea if it became a thing because of this or always was a thing. https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/stopper/74789 https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/stopper/74789
- xeromal 5y agoHow you wrote this response is a bit dickish tbh.
- wutwutwutwut 5y agoI couldn't give a fuck, tbh. I think you may need less coffee if it offended you.
- xeromal 5y agoMan, it's no way to live life being this mean. Remember the human.
- wutwutwutwut 5y agoOh come on. I pointed out a factual error in something which was presented as facts. Someone found my reply dickish. Fine, but I really could not care less. If someone takes offense of that I really feel like they need to take a break from the computer and potentially reduce the caffein intake.
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- strangemonad 5y agoThe colloquial translation for “a stop sign” in Quebec is “un arrêt stop”
- remram 5y agoA stop stop? Doesn't even mention it's a sign?
- nephanth 5y agoWell in France, most people just say "un stop", you don't need to precise it is a sign, because it was originally a borrowed word
- beeforpork 5y agopréciser = to precise I like that. :-) Or maybe 'precisify'.
- nwatson 5y agoOn the other hand "precisar" in Portuguese is "to need", Spanish like French is "to specify" ... keeping a slew of these cognates straight between English/Spanish/Portuguese is a harder part of dealing with all three.
- bshimmin 5y ago"préciser" in English is "specify" in case that helps. (This has been a lovely thread!)
- nephanth 5y agoOups
- laurentlbm 5y agoI usually hear people say "un stop" or "un arrêt", not both.
- Sytten 5y agoIn Quebec we also love to take English verbs and add them to the language. If you are in front of a shop, the proper way of saying things would be: "Je vais me stationner" (I am going to park) Here you would say something like: "J'va m' parker dan'l stationnement" (I am going to park in the parking). The rules are somewhat simple: 1) Take the verb in English and give it a French spin (add "er" to the end) 2) Add an unnecessary second part to your sentence in French to clarify the English verb 3) Reduce the total runtime by mashing together as many syllables as you can God I love our dialect!
- tonyarkles 5y agoHah! Glad to hear that you folks do that out east too! I did French Immersion in SK and we usually did that when we didn't know the French verb. Our teacher would scold us for our "Franglais".
- laurentlbm 5y agoFranglais is very common here in Montreal.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoIn France's French, "I am going to park" is "Je vais me garer", by the way.
- smashed 5y agoYou sure that would not be "Je vais me garer au parking" ?
- WinstonSmith84 5y agonot necessarily. That would mean "I'm going to park in the parking lot". But you could also say "Je vais me garer dans la rue" - I'm going to park on the street. Anyway, in french "je vais me garer" can be translated literally in English
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- antoineMoPa 5y agoIn Quebec, there is more than just French, English & bilingual stops. As an example, there are Mohawk language stops in Kahnawake.
- hetspookjee 5y agoUnrelated to Rouille, but I really like how the word factoid seems to be slowly inverting it's definition. Where it actually means an "Often thought fact that is actually incorrect", e.g. eating 8 spiders in your sleep per year. I am unsure if your fact is actually a factoid, but your comment reads as if you mean to use the word factoid in a reduced size of the word fact, it seems to mean something like; a small fact. In any case I see the word often "misused" in the latter sense. The appearant misuse of the factoid might make the newly acquired definition a ironic one, like an oxymoron. I feel the latter definition of the word factoid feels more sensical: suffixing the word fact with -oid makes the text in which it is applied softer, where the word fact is rather harsh, the word factoid feels more friendly, like boba/ kiki, I speculate. In addition I think using more letters to address the subject you're about to share might make the reader hold its attention for longer and thus feels "right" to use in short sentences. I also feel as if I prefer to read the sentence in which it occurs with a slight upward inflection, which I find more positive. Personally I hope the latter definition will stick and humanity is one more ironic definition richer.
- pavlov 5y agoI always thought “factoid” was meant to highlight the uncertainty of things you read or hear that are presented as facts. Like a humanoid is human-shaped, a factoid is fact-shaped but not necessarily or even probably actual fact.
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- hetspookjee 5y agoThank you I really like that interpretation. I couldn't quite find it but this is splendid.
- dimal 5y agoInteresting. I never thought of “factoid” that way, and if that is an alternative meaning, then the “new” version has been around a long time. My introduction to it was from reading the “Factoids” section in “3-2-1 Contact” magazine as a kid in the 80s.[0] It was my favorite part of the magazine. Let me feel smart without making much effort. [0] https://archive.org/details/321contactjul88/page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/321contactjul88/page/n7/mode/2up
- espadrine 5y ago> Interesting factoid: in France, most of the stop signs say "stop" due to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals linked below. While that is true, the word “stop” had been part of the French language for centuries prior to 1968. It means “halt”.