#French Canadian people

[i-am-l-ananas]

Telefrancais?

Les ananas ne parle pas!

oui c'est possible!!

[killyridols]

midsummer moment by alex garant, 2020, oil on canvas, 20 × 16 inches

[wheeloffortune-design]

there's a specific immigrant experience that i'm trying to define

I come from a culture where people are blunt, direct, and where conflict is part of life. You argue, you get over it, you keep working.

But also, I was raised here, in a culture that avoids conflict with so much force they go all around and create bigger conflict over it.

When you say something neutral and they perceive it as too rude, and then there's four email chains and six meetings about it.

(yes i'm a brown woman why)

[ciderjacks]

i was talking about this to a friend the other day but something i see ppl say often that really really pisses me off, is when people start hating on america, but it becomes clear they’re hating not on the state of america, but on the american people- and theyll say something to sort of like. exclude. american ethnic groups, as like a way of being like “yeahh fuck all americans they should all die IM NOT RACIST THOUGH!” except they do that by being like “yeah and there were american ethnic groups like natives and creoles and whatever…uhh but yk those americans. They killed all of them. So they’re not around anymore ergo not included.”

i just hate that. Like if you want to say you hate a whole population of people you have to acknowledge that you’re hating a whole population of people, you cant back out when it starts sounding really racist because by doing that you’re just sort of saying we are either extinct, or our whole continued existence on this land is null. Like either say you hate all americans and include us, or if that doesn’t sound right, then don’t say it at all!

[ask-hws-canada]

-Anon winks at Canada just to be flirty-

Kumajirou: I though you were better at flirting than that.

Kumajirou: and also I know quite a few people that think you are cute.

Canada: I… don’t want to sound rude or as if I was harassing people, so I only do it through Tinder.

Kumajirou: HUH!? But… You need a bit more courage than that!

Canada: Kumataro, we’re not in Montreal…

Kumajirou: EVEN THEN!!

[screechingsandwichhologram]

my uninformed american opinion is that i will be calling it derry not londonderry because im american and therefore will always support ireland if its ireland vs the british.

(i wasn't even going to post this but i wrote a whole essay in the tags so i don't want to waste that)

[tchaikovskaya]

[hearties-circus]

Being tired has health benefits, it helps me smoke cigarettes

[Shell: he/hir, solly: she/they]

[mishosoupy]

love how knk translations updated but not in the 'OI LADDY WOULD YOU FANCY A CRISPY' way but in the 'Oui oui, baguette criossant' way because now I can actually flex that I speak more than one language

[lulu2992]

Hi lulu, so i was wondering if have you played Far cry new dawn in French, does roger talk in another idiom?

In spanish he stills talk in french

Hi! Yes, I played New Dawn in French and Roger has the same Québécois accent he has in English. It even seems he’s played by the same actor, Vincent Leclerc, whose name appears among the other French voice talents in the credits.

As for some of the (Canadian) French words he uses, such as “osti”, “tabarnak”, or “caulisse”, they’re typical slang/swear words from Québec that we don’t use in France, so they kept them in the French version and they sound as funny and exotic as they do in English.

It’s rare that Far Cry characters who speak with a non-American accent end up also having an accent in the French version of the game, but Roger thankfully kept his!

[trans-cuchulainn]

i have no respect for old french so i pronounce everything wrong but that's okay because old french also has no respect for itself and that's why it sounds like that in the first place

[killyridols]

where you go i go by alex garant, 2022, oil on canvas, 20 × 16 inches

[coockie8]

saying the Newfoundland accent is just how all Canadians speak is like saying the New Orleans accent is how all Americans speak

[apollolewis]

Here’s a fun reminder, Jean-Baptiste is an actual French first/given name. There are people who instead of just being named Jean after John the Baptist are given the full title. And I 100% wouldn’t be surprised if I have some Jean-Baptiste in my family tree.