French Canada: Better then the rest, or WAY Better then the Rest?

new coup for you · 08-13-07, 04:46 PM

I don't dislike English Canada. People are very nice, and everything is usually clean. But I LOVE Montreal. It's like Paris, except people are about 400% nicer and I can afford to buy...anything. Also sometimes people speak English.

bub · 08-13-07, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by new coup for you

I don't dislike English Canada. People are very nice, and everything is usually clean. But I LOVE Montreal. It's like Paris, except people are about 400% nicer and I can afford to buy...anything. Also sometimes people speak English.

Montreal? Like Paris? Never been in Canada but it has only a few things in common with France. Much more similar to the USA.

But I agree, here too the Canadians have a better reputation than the Parisians. And they have a funny accent.

Hatuey · 08-13-07, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by new coup for you

I don't dislike English Canada. People are very nice, and everything is usually clean. But I LOVE Montreal. It's like Paris, except people are about 400% nicer and I can afford to buy...anything. Also sometimes people speak English.

Ah! T'as deja a Montreal mon grand? C'est merveilleux ca.
KK Enough of the Quebecois.

While I agree with you that people in French Canada have better manners. I find that ever since they enacted law 101 the french in the province have over done it with the whole french police thing. I've been to Paris and as far as I've seen the only thing Montreal and Paris have in common is Jacques Cartier. They're two completely different cities.

bub · 08-13-07, 06:51 PM

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Ah! T'as deja a Montreal mon grand? C'est merveilleux ca.
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do you know what you've said?

Hatuey · 08-13-07, 06:58 PM

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do you know what you've said?

ummm I know my quebecois is a bit rusty but excluding the a(which is supposed to be alle) I'm pretty sure I said "Ah you've been to Montreal my friend? Thats great".

new coup for you · 08-13-07, 08:40 PM

i go to Montreal frequently. well, not as much now, but i used to go to Montreal frequently. I love it.

And no, it's really nothing like Paris. But i honestly like it more.

Volker · 08-14-07, 03:13 AM

I have been to Paris and I did not meet one unfriendly person there, they have all been nice, well, very nice by German measures

bub · 08-14-07, 04:07 AM

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ummm I know my quebecois is a bit rusty but excluding the a(which is supposed to be alle) I'm pretty sure I said "Ah you've been to Montreal my friend? Thats great".

Yes exactly, very good! (what made me laugh is that you said "mon grand", that sounds as if you were a grandpa talking to his grandson

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bub · 08-14-07, 04:18 AM

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I have been to Paris and I did not meet one unfriendly person there, they have all been nice, well, very nice by German measures

Yeah but what are the "German measures" lol!
- Ach, eine Brote bitte, Hans. SCHNELL!!!
- Ach, das ist die Brote, Franz. RAUSS!!!

Volker · 08-14-07, 04:24 AM

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Yeah but what are the "German measures" lol!
- Ach, eine Brote bitte, Hans. SCHNELL!!!
- Ach, das ist die Brote, Franz. RAUSS!!!

Yes, this is how we do things here

So if you want something and say so and the person is like "what is the word with the double t?" (like "bitte" for "please"), you are like, the word is "flott" like hurry up