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Quebec French is different than metropolitan French, but not to the degree that modern English is to Shakespeare, that’s a pretty ludicrous comparison. If you
by wbsss4412 5y ago
Quebec French is different than metropolitan French, but not to the degree that modern English is to Shakespeare, that’s a pretty ludicrous comparison.
If you go from North America to the UK you’ll run into plenty of new vocabulary there too.
- amscanne 5y agoI said around the time of Shakespeare, not exclusively Shakespeare (which is essentially poetry). Perhaps “King James Bible” would be a better example. I don’t think it’s that ludicrous, since English hasn’t really changed that much notwithstanding vocabulary and some spelling.
- 908B64B197 5y agoI asked French and French Canadians colleagues over Slack about it. They had a good laugh. Apparently it’s true that French Canadians pronounce words in the pre-revolutionary way (so Royal French?). I know enough French to hold basic conversations and other than a different accent I didn’t notice anything that different. I mean, not more pronounced than English from the UK or Texas. The French Canadians sounds a little bit like Swiss to me. They told me it should be impossible to disambiguate in writing (except when one uses Euros!).