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In 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
by Sytten 5y ago
In 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
- mytailorisrich 5y agoThat means "I'm going to park in the car park.", not just "I'm going to park".
- themodelplumber 5y agoThat's great. I used to do something similar in Japan when talking to Brazilian nationals. When my poor Spanish wasn't good enough to fill in with Portuguese, I'd fill in with Japanese verbs. First it was "vamos taberu" instead of "vamos comer", but then pretty soon it felt more appropriate to shorten the Japanese and say "vamos taber". Weirdly (to me anyway), you could pretty much keep any "ne" you wanted to place after things and it worked fine, because it was a feature of both languages. When you got _just_ the right conversation partner the little word swaps led to a lot of laughter. (We did this in English to some degree too, e.g. naru-freaking-hodo)
- A_non_e-moose 5y ago"Fetchez la vache!"
- na85 5y agoIndeed. In my old job, the number of times I'd hear "criss, j'ai fucké cette affaire la" or similar was beyond measure.
- cjauvin 5y agoOne interesting thing I noticed in the last few years is that the younger generation seems to have a modified version of your rule (1): they don't necessarily add the "er" part anymore (i.e. making the verb infinitive), which sounds (to me) grammatically strange and a bit confusing.