This is 100% true.
Official French language test demands you call it “le fin du semaine”. Meanwhile every single Quebecer and New Brunswicker calls it “le weekend”.
In Quebec it depends. In Montreal people say weekend, but in Quebec city they say “la fin de semaine”. I pretty much think it’s fin de semaine in most regions too. It’s just that the Montreal metropolitan area is half the population.
I personally heard a lot of french people say weekend too, not fin de semaine.
Meanwhile in Quebec the language police has decided that “climat” is too close to “climate” and must be banned, and anyone who disagrees gets the death penalty. This caused an outrage in parliament so now the official policy is only every second disagreement gets the death penalty.
Itallian restaurant :
Calls pasta, pasta.Quebecois language police :
And I took that personallyThis is so dumb, I’m feeling physical pain.
How dare other countries have cultures? Especially with some strange word nobody outside of a small village in their countryside knows, like “pasta”!
“Air Conditioner”, meanwhile, is the kind of name americans in the 50s give products to make them sound slightly futuristic and the next in a long line of purchases necessary for the Middle Class™ life. Twenty years on and its an abbreviation.
It’s a good name too. It cools and dries the air. Lots of people sleep on the drying part, when that’s actually what Carrier designed it for.
It’s also why you need to appropriately size your air conditioning. If it’s undersized it obviously won’t keep up with the heat. But if it’s oversized, it may cool your space so quickly it doesn’t effectively cycle enough air to control the humidity.
An abbreviation that sometimes needs clarification since Americans also became too lazy to say “Alternating Current.”
Hypothetical conversation:
“Something something AC.”
“Hmm, do you mean alternating current? Or air conditioning?”
Okay but no joke people call it “La clime” in French. This meme is too real!
Some Germans shorten “Die Klimaanlage” to “Die Klima” which is pretty close to “Das Klima”, meaning climate.
Personally I prefer “Der Klimat” (with the t at the end) just to fuck with people, because everyone understands it but nobody likes it XD
My immediate thought. Even better it’s the classic French “no that word is of the other gender”. Le climatiseur, La climatisation, easy!
Also somewhat common in Spanish.
Oh interesting, where is that used? The only shorthand I’ve heard in Spanish is el aire
In Monterey I heard “el clima” tho “el aire” was more common
The English would end up using rhyming slang for it. They’d call it “the stop” as in “stop and stare [rhymes with air]” or some other insufferable thieves’ cant.
Stick the air con on
The aircon con.
Australians would call it the climo. Actually, how do they not do this already?
Because it’s called aircon
It’s the airco, old mate.
Airco airco airco
To be fair, some do get specific if they have a splitty
Splitty! Thx mate, I’ve been saying reverse-cycle every time like a goddamn chump.
People who say “aircon” nonchalantly whistling as they try to walk away unnoticed
Bob l’éponge
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Not a native speaker, but I’m pretty sure it’s also d’edifice, not de l’edifice.
theyd call it le calisse de freezé imarche pu tabarnac ostie
Ha! Quebecers would find an archaic word 22 letters long and turn it into an official term policed by the OQLF nazis.
Source: am Quebecer.
For a while the French language officials were trying to change “e-mail” and they couldn’t get anyone to change.
I love the English luangage because it adapts, changes, and steals. If enough people say a word it just becomes the word.
France needs a whole concil to keep its language sounding posh.
French is such a stupid language I cant tell if that is real french or not.
I took a year of French in high school and recognize most of those words, so I can firmly say maybe.
Aside from a spelling error, pretty sure it’s proper French
There’s 2 typos. But it’s pretty close to correct.
But it underestimates people’s laziness that leads to shortening words, which happens in all languages.
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It kinda looks like a French version of Beamtendeutsch (lit. civil servant’s German).
It’s real French but it is just as silly in French as if in English we would say “machine for controlling the cooling of air in the interior of the building”, and nobody would use it. The joke about the language police is apt for the general behaviour of the Academie but not actually real in this case. French is probably less stupid than English tbh, although the rules about pronunciation vs spelling are over the top, at least they’re still way more systematic.
The Academie is out of touch with contemporary french language. They got laughted at when they released their latest dictionary which stated FRANC was the official currently, despite the EURO replacing it 20+ years ago.
Commercial dictionaries like Robert or Larousse are more useful or up-to-date. The Academie dictionnary seems mostly useless sadly.
English is like 40% bastardized French so the stupidity of each must be in lockstep to some degree
English is French in a German trench coat.
Other way around imo, the structure and the most common verbs are still Germanic, but the majority of vocab over a minimum level of complexity is from French
Or Latin, English lurks in alleyways alongside Japanese to steal people’s words.
Yes, but the very fact that it’s 40% French and 60% other random stuff is what makes it stupider.
I did 5 years of it and they call it la clim for short (pronounced cleem). Climot sounds very real to me as well, but I don’t think it is.
Enters the car, turns on the climate
🌍: 🥵
No, it’s local, so it’s the weather
i wonder which one was more successful 🤔
idk how much spanish people say “estreamer” but no one, and i mean fucking no one says “joueur-animateur” in french. we just say “streameur”, because it turns out that you can’t really change a word that implanted itself into common usage, especially not when your proposed alternative is infinitely worse (somehow both too vague and too specific, and also too unwieldy to say)
I like that this meme still baited you to replying a year later :D
It’s a meme, there is a sheen of irony on there, which is true to your point : people aren’t going to say joueur animateur, but it’s “based” (futile and arrogant) to put rules that you have to say their joueur animateur. And by going along with what people actually say (estreamer), the RAE is wimpy and beta.
My actual gripe is that the RAE is too beta to include other things to help minority communities, like the “tod@s” stuff to be gender inclusive. It’s in fucking use, why include other things but not that?
I like that this meme still baited you to replying a year later :D
and the exact same meme too, by you… i am such a predictable creature :(
anyways, yea i do get the meme, and i agree with u about the RAE… and now that i look at it my reply is a bit tone-deaf… i just hate the french language establishment so much lol, it could actually do interesting stuff to help evolve the french language but instead it proposes ludicrously out of touch things (i know i’ve said it before but acolyte des illustres???) and polices people’s language (especially in quebec as you’ve pointed out in other places)
i’m so mad tho. u baited me and i bit like a fucking fish :(
also, I’m sorry I hurt your feelings. It wasn’t my intention to bait you to replying… at the start. But I did enjoy noticing you paid attention to it again without revisiting the thread or having a certain sense of… deja vu.
OH MY GOD
This made me laugh for like 2 mins and a literal tear came out of my eye. Thank you for that reaction.
Last year I thought “acolyte des illustres” was just a turn of phrase for pretensious people. I didn’t realise you meant they use that phrase instead of follower.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acolyte_des_illustres
I did very much enjoy that exchange as the mutual semi-intelligibility between romance languages, I thought looking it up too hard would have ruined it.
I still wish they would be more bold with introducing much needed changes to the languages. As a shitty polyglot, I do get frustrated that there’s too much english in the other languages when I try to speak it with friends and family. I know “leptop” is easier to say in turkish, but I want “dizüstü bilgisayarı” since it’s the actual turkic fucking word for it.
Four twenty ten.
Have a nice day.
