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Newfoundland is predominantly English-speaking, so it's unlikely this reporter used anything else when preparing this story.
by creaturemachine 1y ago
Newfoundland is predominantly English-speaking, so it's unlikely this reporter used anything else when preparing this story.
- soperj 1y ago>Newfoundland is predominantly English-speaking That's quite generous of you to say.
- margalabargala 1y agoFor anyone wondering, over 98% of Newfoundland's population speaks only English. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/language.php https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/language.php
- dylan604 1y agoYeah, Newfies speak English just like Scottish speak English. Those words might be English, but it's the phrasing that makes no sense.
- fooster 1y agoNewfoundlanders you mean.
- brailsafe 1y agoFairly sure Newfie is broadly used as a colloquial term of endearment in the rest of Canada, by Newfoundlanders and non-Newfoundlanders. There's just too many syllables
- creaturemachine 1y agoHow about Newfoundland-and-Labradorean? It's funny that the only ones insulted by Newfie are the non-newfies.
- fooster 1y agoI am a Newfoundlander and I don’t appreciate that term.
- fooster 1y agoIt is not. It is insulting and derogatory. Don’t use it thanks.
- brailsafe 1y agoWhile that's not how it's ever been used in my life, I can accept that it's perfectly valid for you and presumably many others to feel differently. Having grown up with so much predominantly east coast originating comedy, and around so many Newfoundland diaspora, I guess it never occurred to me that there was any real negative connotation whatsoever, beyond poking a bit of fun at some of the presumably antiquated cultural stereotypical differences via self-deprecating jokes that most people from smaller places have their own versions of and don't take too seriously.
- mc3301 1y agoWhat're you at 'der b'y?
- grovesNL 1y agoYes b'y, Newfoundland English is best kind sure.
- Eavolution 1y agoCan confirm, I've only ever heard a chain of the word "woof" from a newfie.
- tejtm 1y agoCurious that. The English did force the French population out of there and down the Mississippi to become Cajuns. And the children of the native Abenaki population were sent to English Schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
- margalabargala 1y agoWell sure. Lots of shitty things were done that caused the current state of affairs to come into being. I was just describing the present day, not defending whatbwas done to create it.
- soperj 1y agoAcadians were in Nova Scotia. There were already a bunch of French in New Orleans/Louisiana. Hence "Louis"iana, new "Orleans", "De-troit" etc. It was all new France. And the residential schools happened well after the formation of Canada, and a lot of happened at the behest of the Catholic Church (ie: French Canadians). see Vital Grandin.