#european canadian

[poetryfoundation-potd]

February

By Margaret Atwood

Winter. Time to eat fat

and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,

a black fur sausage with yellow

Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries

to get onto my head. It’s his

way of telling whether or not I’m dead.

If I’m not, he wants to be scratched; if I am

He’ll think of something. He settles

on my chest, breathing his breath

of burped-up meat and musty sofas,

purring like a washboard. Some other tomcat,

not yet a capon, has been spraying our front door,

declaring war. It’s all about sex and territory,

which are what will finish us off

in the long run. Some cat owners around here

should snip a few testicles. If we wise

hominids were sensible, we’d do that too,

or eat our young, like sharks.

But it’s love that does us in. Over and over

again, He shoots, he scores! and famine

crouches in the bedsheets, ambushing the pulsing

eiderdown, and the windchill factor hits

thirty below, and pollution pours

out of our chimneys to keep us warm.

February, month of despair,

with a skewered heart in the centre.

I think dire thoughts, and lust for French fries

with a splash of vinegar.

Cat, enough of your greedy whining

and your small pink bumhole.

Off my face! You’re the life principle,

more or less, so get going

on a little optimism around here.

Get rid of death. Celebrate increase. Make it be spring.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/february-56d2288025b1e

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[misspeppermint2003]

⭐️ Weekly Fandom Vote (Round 5) ⭐️

[lionmythflower]

evan: and my memère-

Regulus: your what

Evan: grandma

Regulus: then it would be grandmère or something along those lines

Evan: no

*regulus and Evan proceed to argue over European French and Canadian French for the 4th time that week*

Barty, annoyed: *muttering smth in Italian abt them arguing*

[frootaye]

tng accidental 2000s time travel episode where data simply goes to the mall, finds vaguely gothic clothing, and just hangs out at hot topic with the mall goths until the enterprise finds him

[slutforpringles]

Daniel chatting with Laurent before heading out in FP1

Friday | Montreal | Bryn Lennon 

[spaceexp]

Gateway Full Configuration - Hero Image by NASA Johnson Via Flickr: The Gateway space station will be humanity's first space station around the Moon as a vital component of the Artemis missions to return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart the path for the first human missions to Mars. Astronauts on Gateway will be the first humans to call deep space home during missions where they will use Gateway to conduct science and prepare for lunar surface missions. Photo Credit: NASA Secondary Creator Credit: Alberto Bertolin, Bradley Reynolds

[captain-price-unofficially]

Canadian Armoured Autocars, April 1918

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Canadian Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso(ft. Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, & Jenson Button)

[aashiqui-aashiqui]

im here to talk about my situationship (maybe? idk lmao) again. do guys drop lore about their own previous experiences to a girl that they have known for like a week. idk maybe its because he lives on residence and im a commuter but we have been texting a lot these past few days

[muirneach]

the difference between team world and team europe is that carlitos is the only kid on team europe and team world are all kids or at least very silly adults

[yardsards]

the word "expat" is so annoying to me like. shhh you're just an immigrant who thinks that other immigrants are lesser than them

[quarks-pussy]

I am so utterly amused every time someone says they didn't know Picard was French. His name is Jean-Luc Picard what do you MEAN you didn't realise he was French???

[misspeppermint2003]

⭐️ Weekly Fandom Vote (Round 35) ⭐️

[fromtheseventhhell]

People from all across the world being able to freely travel to Israel, join the IDF, and participate in a genocide with no repercussions is such a difficult concept for me to wrap my mind around

[ub-sessed]

I have just started learning Portuguese, and I am fascinated by the pronunciation of European Portuguese compared to Quebecois French: we both completely omit a significant proportion of the vowels in our words in basically the same way. But whereas the attitude in Quebec seems to be that this is wrong or bad somehow, when learning European Portuguese it is considered the correct pronunciation. So the immediate conclusion I would draw is that there is still a strong "metropole = correct" bias.

But: Nobody ever seems to imply that the Brazilian pronunciation, where all the vowels are actually pronounced, is inferior. In fact, when trying to learn Portuguese as a second language, Brazilian Portuguese seems to be the standard.

To me, arguing that Quebec French is somehow inferior or less correct than France French has always seemed absurd, like arguing that Canadian or American English are somehow less correct than British English.*

And yet I know that a lot of people think that any English that isn't RP is inferior or incorrect, and that speaking RP means that you "don't have an accent". 🙄

I haven't studied Spanish, so I don't know what the attitudes are towards the respective dialects there.

I imagine this has all been researched and I am curious to learn more. I feel like in my limited experience, on a scale of how much the metropolitan dialect is valued over the colonial dialect, French is the highest and Portuguese is the lowest, with English somewhere in between, but I could be completely off base. I wonder what the factors are that affect these attitudes.

*I should disclose my personal bias that I vastly prefer Quebecois French: It's pithy! It's evocative! It goes straight for the gut.