[gaulois]

[QUOTE BY= lesouris] I think I can speak for most products of the Ontarian educational system when I say Franch class was horrible [/QUOTE] <br /> <br />Did you too have this Mlle Tremblay? <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'> <br /> <br />Yep the educational system has not helped. Math is an other interesting case; often whoever was teaching it was terrified of the subject matter in the first place. The profanities this has resulted into might explain why our accounting practices and consumer debt are so flucked up. Pardon my French as they sometimes say in English. <br /> <br />Something quite funny I have observed myself in regards to French teaching in the ROC was the case where a non pure-laine was teaching it and the entire classroom ends up talking this pseudo-French and everyone making the same mistakes with my two grown up kids being prime examples now. Kinda like a dialect. Funny that my son still corrects my English. <br /> <br />Well I am sure the francoes have also used the English profanity words for excess shock value too. I have been catching myself recently doing this with the profanity words out of France (which would be quite different from Quebec!). Oh well. What comes around goes around specially with this globalization thing. <br /> <br />BTW, when there is too much steam, Tabarnuck would be an appropriate Vive profanity, I think.

[Captain Flynn]

I think anglophones under the age of 30 think Quebecois culture is cool. I first noticed this in going to anti-globalization protests, and alot of writing on non-institutional leftist thought (i.e. anarchism) seems to be coming from anglophones in Quebec. <br /> <br />I guess its kind of like Trudeaumania, except more grassroots. It may have something to do with the globalization of communications too. Young people just don't feel there are legitimate divisions between cultures anymore, and that includes bicultural Canada.

[cathou79]

[QUOTE BY= gaulois] [QUOTE BY= lesouris] I think I can speak for most products of the Ontarian educational system when I say Franch class was horrible [/QUOTE] <br /> <br />Did you too have this Mlle Tremblay? <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'> <br /> <br />Yep the educational system has not helped. Math is an other interesting case; often whoever was teaching it was terrified of the subject matter in the first place. The profanities this has resulted into might explain why our accounting practices and consumer debt are so flucked up. Pardon my French as they sometimes say in English. <br /> <br />Something quite funny I have observed myself in regards to French teaching in the ROC was the case where a non pure-laine was teaching it and the entire classroom ends up talking this pseudo-French and everyone making the same mistakes with my two grown up kids being prime examples now. Kinda like a dialect. Funny that my son still corrects my English. <br /> <br />Well I am sure the francoes have also used the English profanity words for excess shock value too. I have been catching myself recently doing this with the profanity words out of France (which would be quite different from Quebec!). Oh well. What comes around goes around specially with this globalization thing. <br /> <br />BTW, when there is too much steam, Tabarnuck would be an appropriate Vive profanity, I think.[/QUOTE] <br /> <br />in fact, my opinion is that quebec dont have bad word anynore, not that have a "shok value" here word that you call bad such has tabarnak or calisse are use very often by most of the population. the reason for that is that our bad word take their origin in catholic relogion, but since almost nobody goes to church anymore, tey have lost their signification. and bad word from france have almost no shock value in quebec.

[lesouris]

[QUOTE BY= cathou79]in fact, my opinion is that quebec dont have bad word anynore, not that have a "shok value" here word that you call bad such has tabarnak or calisse are use very often by most of the population. the reason for that is that our bad word take their origin in catholic relogion, but since almost nobody goes to church anymore, tey have lost their signification. and bad word from france have almost no shock value in quebec.[/QUOTE] <br /> <br />Lucky francophone children, no washing their mouth out with soap...well I guess there are some things you shouldn't say in French, unless there are no racial/ethnic/sexual slurs in Quebec-French, which would make it unique amongst the world's mainstream languages/dialects. <br /> <br />Although, it's probably like the english words "crap" or "stupid"...when you're a kid here they're horrendous things to say, but then you get older and no one cares anymore.