Thread 216437251

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>>216437251 (OP)
Are French speakers in Yellowknife just zainichi Quebecois?

When Quebec becomes independent, maybe it will get back Newfoundland and the Maritimes that were stolen from it, else Canada would be split in two.

I would have thought French would be more widespread.

>>216438040
Color code makes everything below 50% look red.
It's surprising so many people in Ontario know French actually
As for the provinces West of Ontario, few people live there with the exception of British Columbia who doesn't need learning French.
But all Québécois know English.
Just split the country, it's better for everyone. Vive le Québec Libre.

self reported statistic, people think reading the french label counts as knowledge, it's much lower

>>216438040
why?
you have to take it in school for a few years, then you forget it
other than Montreal anglos don't spend much time in Quebec and you don't need french in the tourist part of town

>>216437271
large number of federal employees who have to know it

>>216438116
if Canada is divisible, Quebec is divisible
all of the resources and hydro are in areas with natives who prefer anglos and would leave independent quebec

>>216438116
There are a lot of French patches all the way from Quebec to the Red River... Central and Northern "Ontarois" is a godawful sounding dialect.
Unfortunately there just aren't a lot of reasons to speak it in a lot of places, outside of Quebec, and even in Quebec, you run into a lot of people who at least understand English if they don't speak it... I've had a lot of surreal experiences teching for bands where I'll try to translate and the local crew will tell me they understand perfectly, then I'll try to translate back and the band will tell me they speak French pretty well... it gets to a point where I just drop into Frenglish because I'm getting English from half the people there and French from the other, and my brain gives up on switching properly.

>>216438273
Are there Acadian communities in the maritimes or is it just a meme?

>>216438283
Full communities would be smaller... like I can't think of even villages too far out from the QC border where the English is accented... but there's enough of them that you'll overhear a lot of French hanging out in Moncton, Fredericton, or Halifax.

>>216437251 (OP)
>Osti de tabarnak de cibioire de saint osti de trou de cul de la vierge. On parle bien français icitte, chum

>>216438116
They had a referendum 30 years ago, and it barely lost.

>>216438327
Fraudulent referendum or however the poutine is made.

>>216438348
Trump will find oil in Chateauguay or some shit, and all the poor French will finally be liberated...

>>216438348
The usual cope, too many Quebecers voted Non. Simple as. If they voted in unison, nobody would think about this.

>>216438283
yes, but they tend to be small
there's 300k of them, but the southern ones speak chiac instead of french
northern ones are more french, but tend to be poorer
all of the government jobs require bilingualism, and there aren't a lot of jobs in New Brunswick that aren't government or Irving and Irving is anglo
>>216438303
>like I can't think of even villages too far out from the QC border where the English is accented
shediac
>>216438327
it wasn't a referendum on independence

>>216438440
>shediac
Good call! Haven't been there in like a decade.

>>216438440
>chiac
What is that? Some creole?

>>216438477
correct

>>216437251 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEEsx6Plnhw

>>216438477
yes
https://youtu.be/wvW7fkPle6g?t=600
french, but English pronunciation and loan words

>>216438273
My Chinese girlfriend lived one year in Montréal after living two years in Sweden. In Sweden, she just spoke English all the time and didn't even bother learning Swedish. But she was adamant that the vast majority of people spoke French rather than English in Montréal. I always thought the opposite was true, maybe it just changed in the meantime in favor of French. The situation doesn't seem that bad in Québec at least.

>>216438388
My birth year.
Most immigrants voted "non" but real Québécois voted "oui". That's why some low IQ schizo maniac tried to assassinate the Canadian premier Jean Chrétien when the results came out.

>>216439115
>zainichi immigrants ou quelque chose

>>216437251 (OP)
yea i aint learnin that shit. tu est un nigger

>>216439054
I've never been there but I know over the years Quebec has implemented a bunch of laws to protect French usage

Canada unironically going full French would be based.

Idk I guess they can revive Newfoundland and turn it into Anglo ( and Irish/Gaelic ) Canada along with Nova Scotia.

>>216437251 (OP)
Knowledge of punjab in Canada