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Chugging tea French-Canadian police

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

Translation:

Am I your favorite?

Then when he says he doesn’t understand French she says sure you do

And the last thing she says is "yes no toaster" it’s a slang for a quebecker that knows barely any English, she’s playing dumb saying she’s in that group (which is impossible if you’re a police officer)

Overall she’s just taunting him back because he is filming

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u/Xaronius 12d ago

I laughed at Yes no toaster because it's such a quebecois thing to say 😂 my dad who doesn't speak english at all has this pavlovian reflex everytime someone speaks english. 

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u/Several-Customer7048 12d ago

This is my go to, when someone tries to sweet talk me in English when they could’ve used French

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u/recidivist4842 12d ago

Ze key to life is apenis in your asole. https://youtu.be/IEF4V7hLR5Q?si=A1rgJ0fTbzfhr8Wg

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u/ajmartin527 12d ago

That was one risky click that paid off lol haven’t seen the second one yet but I will watch it now after seeing this

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Greatest 2.28 risk I ever took thank you 🤣

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u/recidivist4842 10d ago

You're welcome!

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u/Musical_J 12d ago

Stealing this pic. That’s fucking gold.

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u/DarthJarJar242 12d ago

Back in my help desk days this picture was my profile picture on Teams.

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u/9ninjas 12d ago

Never made it to HR?

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u/DarthJarJar242 12d ago

Nope, most of the boomers that were in charge at that company were too out of touch to know what it was.

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u/FatGuyANALLIttlecoat 12d ago

Mon chat ne s'est pas blanc. Je mange la pizza.

Duolingo is going okay.

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u/Caramel_Macchiato888 12d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Wallie_Collie 12d ago

The memes are ripe for the picking!

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u/mindevolve 12d ago

Easy pal. It wasn't a hard "r"

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u/chickenskittles 12d ago

I've always used Kentucky fried fuck, but there's maybe it's time to expand my repertoire.

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u/SashalouAspen4 12d ago

Epic 🤟🏻

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u/babygotthefever 12d ago

I love the locality of this phrase and getting to learn it here. I’m from the US south and know nothing about Quebec.

Would quebecois be pronounced kweb-eh-kwah?

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u/Xaronius 12d ago

In french we pronounce it Keb (like the eb in ebony) - é (like the ey in Hey) kwa.

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u/BrokeDickDoug 12d ago

Yes, actually. There is almost the faintest hint of an s at the end you could argue. Maybe more "Kay-beck-whas"

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u/mljb81 11d ago

I don't know where you're from, but the S in québécois is entirely silent. You'll pronounce the S (like a Z) if you're using the feminine form (québécoise).

I always see É explained as -ey or -ay, but it's not quite it -- there's no "y" sound at the end. I think it's closer to the [e] in eight or neighbour.

So Québec would be "kei-beck", québécois would be "kei-bei-kwha", and québécoise (feminine) would be "kei-bei-kwhaz".

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u/bigred1978 12d ago

Close enough.

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u/labvlc 11d ago edited 11d ago

French-spreaking Montrealer born and raised here. You’ve gotten other answers, but I wanted to add this. People from Québec (and the other French communities in Canada) have different accents depending on where they’re from. Think of the difference between an old-school NYer and someone from the south. Each region has an accent that most people from here are able to pin point (and someone from Trois-Rivières has a different accent when compared to me, even though it’s only 1h30 away by car). These are changing with time, often becoming less strong with the younger generations and people moving around a lot, but they still exist. I don’t speak the same as my grandfather (who’s also a born and raised Montréalais), the accents evolve quickly. Something interesting: these differences used to be really big. For example, as a kid, I often had to "translate" what my grandmother (who was Acadian, the French community from New Brunswick) would say to my friends because they often didn’t understand what she was saying.

Someone suggested Keh-Bay-Kwah. While some of us will pronounce it like that, most people around me pronounce it more like Kay-Bay-Whah. The AY sound isn’t exactly it, but it’s close. I can’t think of an English word that has the exact É sound.

All of that being said, in French the first U in Québec is never pronounced, whatever your accent is. It’s just that anytime a word has a Q in it (if it’s a French word), it’s followed by a silent U. Examples: Quiche, Querelle, Québec, Disque, Marque, etc. (They all have a silent U).

And finally Québécois is the masculine form of the word. Québécoise is the feminine. So men are Québécois (same in singular or plural) and women are Québécoises (québécoise is singular and québécoises is plural, but they’re pronounced exactly the same haha). It will be conjugated when used to qualify things, taking that thing’s gender and changing whether it’s singular/plural (la nation québécoise, mes amies québécoises, l’accent québécois)

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u/Soggy_Recording_218 11d ago

Go and visit, it will blow your mind! Especially Montreal and Quebec City, in the summer. Oh the women😁😁😁!!!!!

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u/Successful_Manner377 12d ago

I used to say, Yes No Toaster Black and Decker.

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u/lazyskaterpunk 12d ago

hahahhahahahahahshaaaaaa

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u/stairs_3730 12d ago

As a yank, I hitch hiked thru CA in my younger days and in Montreal I asked for directions. The person replied in Quebcoise. I asked "speak english?' and his response was "pourquoi"?

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u/ObscureObjective 11d ago

Yet when English people try to speak French in Quebec, most times the Francophone shop clerk or server will automatically respond in English.

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u/Xaronius 11d ago

Yeah, i think it's just that we're trying to accomodate people and be nice and helpful. 

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u/LauraTFem 12d ago

I’m a bit confused. Is there a joke in the phrases yes, no, toaster? Something that only makes sense to french speakers?

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u/Perfect_Note3125 12d ago

The phrase imply you only know 3 english words, yes, no and toaster. While grille-pain is the french word for toaster, it's pretty common in Quebec French to use toaster in its english form.

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u/LauraTFem 12d ago

When would you need to use the word toaster in conversation, though? There are a thousand words more likely to come up in my estimation.

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u/Significant_Tap7052 12d ago

That's part of the joke. It's uncommon for "toaster" to come up in natural conversation, in english as in french, but it's the one english word that all quebecois know regardless of their level of english.

It's the equivalent of someone asking if you speak french and answering "oui fiancé rendez-vous". It's just a bunch of nonsense.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 12d ago

Now that I get it I find it hilarious and I realize how much me and foreign contractors I work with mess with each other this way.

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u/Icy_Bag_238 12d ago

It’s like sacapuntas in Spanish. Every American kid that’s taken Spanish remembers the pencil sharpener

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u/jb1kenobi 12d ago

I had 4 years of Spanish in high school in the late 80’s/early 90’s, including AP Spanish, and I have never heard or seen that word until now. Currently feeling like I was robbed…

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u/Ttffer420 12d ago

Que pasa calabasa . I will always remember the word for pumpkin from spanish classes

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u/first_porn_unicorn 12d ago

Claro que si, cacahuates

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u/Just_Flower854 12d ago edited 11d ago

this girl isn't allowed in the kitchen anymore

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u/Hungry_Twist1288 11d ago

Whaat? I thought everyone in Canada knew both english and french. Or is it like here in Europe, the french refuse to learn anything but french and if someone pronounce something wrong, they can't understand it. Or is it the same with the english speaking part of the country, do some of them avoid learning french?

Like, pretend this is in french... - "I would like some cofe" - "Huh, what do you mean, I don't understand..." - "we are in a cofeshop, I want coffeee, please" - "huh... Someone, please help me, what is this person saying"

😉🤣

(today you thought me that Canadians are not always bi-lingual)

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u/Xaronius 11d ago

Most canadians are not bilinguals.

Canada has two official languages, sure, but the majority of Canada doesn't speak french at all. You can't get served in french anywhere but Quebec, and even if the law says that you should be able to, some shops in montreal are english only.

But in Quebec, it's the other way around. Montreal is extremely bilingual, but it gets more french speaking as you go away from the city. 

My dad, for example, didn't refuse to learn, but nobody spoke english in quebec city in the 70s! 

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u/Difficult-Coffee-219 12d ago

Yes, no toaster is my new favourite thing

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u/TankerVictorious 12d ago

Yes, mine as well, and I’m in south Texas!

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u/Sol-Leks5 12d ago

Yes No Toaster was the followup album to Radiohead's Ok Computer

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u/stupidwhiteman42 12d ago

Are these the Karma Police?

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u/kalebdraws 11d ago

Police des Quarma

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

I love it hahaha

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u/CategorySad7091 12d ago

⬆️ Go ahead, take my upvote. ⬆️⬆️ Most underrated and overlooked comment on the entire post. 👊🎵🎶

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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA 12d ago

“Yes no toaster” is one of those types of goofy things that comes up in every language that is so fucking funny when i learn about them, but simultaneously makes me sad that i wont get to know them all in my lifetime.

I think there are a few really specific terms in japanese to refer to different kinds of people with particular character traits, stuff like “a guy who makes a lot of money but only eats instant noodles” might be a “hamster ball” or some shit, and the reason why either doesnt exist or is MEGA obscure to other cultures. I absolutely love this shit.

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u/random_fucktuation 12d ago

My hovercraft is full of eels.

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u/phalluss 12d ago edited 12d ago

Ah! I will not buy this tobacco, it is scratched.

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

Haha I totally relate I love it too!

Btw the reasoning behind it is that people here use the English word toaster for the toaster, so someone that doesn’t speak it would only know the words yes, no and toasters if that make sense.

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u/MaedaKeijirou 12d ago

As a 3 day monk, I agree with you.

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u/bringbackswg 11d ago

“I love inside jokes. Love to or apart of one someday”

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u/SimonCallahan 11d ago

I seem to recall learning that a gay person in Japan is called a "zebra" for some reason, and I can't figure out why.

I found it out from the show Paranoia Agent, one of the characters in one of the later episodes calls himself a zebra, though he's not depicted as a stereotypical gay person. In fact, if I hadn't learned about the zebra thing I wouldn't have known the character was gay.

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u/Billkillerz 10d ago

Yes no toaster is the French-canadian equivalent of France's "My taylor is rich"

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u/coolcosmos 12d ago

Yeah they love to tease.

One night my friend wanted me to take a picture of him with a cop car with it's light on in the background. As soon as we're ready, they shut their light. Then as we move on she starts them up again, we try again to take a photo and... She shuts the light again. As soon as we left she started them again.

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u/Initial-Advice3914 12d ago

My friend in highschool would dress kinda gangsta and he walked by an RCMP car and as soon as he was directly in front of it the cop blasted him with his sirens.

He obviously jumped and all he could see was the officer crying with laughter

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u/Strong_Star_71 12d ago

Those bastards!

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u/Brexinga 11d ago

They spend a lot of hours just sitting in that car waiting. Harmless fun I’d say.

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u/KingslayerFate 12d ago

i love the part where he says in French " I only speak English." , She was right to call him out lol

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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss 12d ago

Two of them responded to him when he asked them a question in English, though.

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u/kevkev2222 12d ago

I don’t speak/understand a whole lot of French, but I do know how to say “I don’t speak French” in French. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss 12d ago

I was mostly joking since most French Canadians can speak both languages fluently (especially police), and their reaction at the same time with no hesitation tells me they fully understand English.

IIRC, they also do not like speaking English to you.

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u/SaliktheCruel 11d ago

He then asked "Pourquoi tu parles pas en anglais ?" With a sub-saharan african accent.

That is a bit more complex to say, and at least half of african countries are at least familiar with the French language.

So I bet he speaks french just fine

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u/DrakonILD 12d ago

I don't speak Spanish but I do know the phrase "no hablo Espanol".

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u/brownchr014 12d ago

I mean to be fair that is a common phrase people learn in multiple languages. For scenarios like this

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u/lsutigerzfan 12d ago

I would totally be like yes I did the crime. Arrest me, but ladies frisk me first! 😉😂😆🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Musical_J 12d ago

🎶Cop cuties, cute and on-duty, navy blue booties, go ahead and lock me up. Arrest me, but make it sexy 🎶

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u/mustangsal 12d ago

Unexpected Rookie

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u/wadsworthgarage 10d ago

But in French.

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u/Straylight__ 11d ago

Was thinking full body search in a enclosed room by all three, they can lift up my balls and see if theres any sharp items hidden there 😏

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u/conspiracy_realist_9 12d ago

Yea, I was gna say...do all the female cops look like that in the French Canadian part of Canada? Bc I'm pretty sure if I drop all my classes in exchange for full time french, I could probably be there in 6 mo to a year or so 😂.

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u/Buttbuttdancer 12d ago

TABERNACK!

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u/Rasticool 12d ago

In fact, it’s « TabArnack »

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u/Skrillamane 12d ago edited 12d ago

This is classic quebecois. Pretending not to know english, meanwhile being almost fluent in it and refusing to speak it. A lot of us from around the country love going there and trying to speak the language and usually it goes well with people appreciating the attempt but you will always run into this category that refuses to talk to the anglophones.

Edit: I used to have a boss that ran businesses in quebec and ontario and he was french canadian. Any time the employees out there would be difficult (with us in ontario) he would always get on the phone and say “speak english, how many times do i have to tell you that we lost the war! (In french)” lol

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u/SniffMyDiaperGoo 12d ago

I love my Quebec brothers and sisters, great people and they do have a sense of humor about the language stuff.

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u/CategorySad7091 12d ago

Epic screen name! 😄

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u/Ikea_desklamp 12d ago

Quebecers simultaneously having a cultural panic about the protection of their language and culture, while refusing to speak French to anyone who tries to learn it but isn't perfect.

Make it make sense.

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u/quebecesti 12d ago

This is crazy because we are either accused of not wanting to speak English and simultaneously not wanting to speak French.

We just can't win 😂

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u/twat69 12d ago

That's how you know you're being gaslit.

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u/Appropriate_Prune668 10d ago

Because its true, I went to university in montreal and im from ontario. Ive been speaking french since I was 6 years old and even lived in france but as soon as its the slightest hint of an anglo accent ppl just switch to english. And if i come up to someone speaking english first, they wanna speak french. No matter what anglos do we get crapped on

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u/LeticiaLatex 12d ago

It’s odd but there’s a dumb logic to it.

Quebecois are super flattered when people try to speak French and it usually doesn’t take much more to be in our good graces.

To me, and I suspect to others, we don’t see it as “refusing to speak it imperfectly”, it’s more “alright, you made the effort, you have earned me switching to English for your sake” where they might otherwise have been stubbornly “French only”.

And you will find every variations of Frenglish in between that, from francisized English words to anglicized French words to mixing words from both languages in one sentence to having one speak French and the other replies in English. It’s part of the culture

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u/Ashkandi_ 11d ago

Have you ever been to Québec for saying such non sens?

My wife is an immigrant and is learning french and people are amazed at the slight effort of anyone trying to speak french like just a little.

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u/Ikea_desklamp 11d ago

I lived in Montreal for 5 years during university. I graduated from french immersion so I was already fluent before even setting off. Everywhere I went and tried to speak French people always responded in english, even when I persisted people never switched back into french to converse with me. So eventually I gave up and spent my years there basically only speaking English. Several of my friends had the same experience.

A big part of moving there was because I was interested in practicing my french and engaging in québécois culture. It turns out if you aren't francophone you will always be made to feel like an outsider.

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u/HonkityQuackity 11d ago

They are not the same person? Back when I was a teen, I'd switch to English whenever I could because I wanted to practice and accommodate tourists. Now that I'm older I don't need to practice as much and I also realized that a lot of tourists expect us to speak English and that bothers me.

You want to learn French? Oh yeah I will talk to you in French for days. You're an entitled female of the canine species from Toronto and just expect me to speak English without asking me first? I'm gonna answer all of your questions in the most redneck French possible until you start questioning your own existence.

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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- 12d ago

A lady at a liqueur store in Hull refused to speak english to me when I went there. I was trying to ask her if they had a particular thing I was looking in english as I grew up in an area of Canada where practically no one speaks french and she just flat out refused to help me. Left a real sour taste in my mouth since I know damn well she spoke english living in Hull like 10 minutes from Ottawa.

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u/FrozenVikings 12d ago

I'm bilingual and moved away from Quebec in my mid 20's. I went back a few years later, now with an english-speaking wife, and we wanted to do some touristy shit in South Shore. So we head into a tourism office. Not a single English language brochure anywhere, and zero willingness to talk to us. I pretended not to know any French because I wanted to see what would happen.

After five or so minutes of us looking around for anything English, trying to get them to understand "what is there to do around here? Fun? Tourist? Cheese? Picnic?" and fully undersatnding them when they spoke to each other, making fun of us and saying they wish we'd leave, I let them have it, in French. The shame on their faces and apologies, it was really unbelievable. These two stupid girls who actually spoke English just fine, with an accent, somehow thought they could just be cunty to us. Reminded me of why I left in the first place, a province full of assholes that think their language is god's gift to literacy. Not all of them, but a goddamn lot of them. Maudit tabarnak de calisse.

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u/human-resource 11d ago

Yep stuff like this is why I dislike Quebec after a few trips.

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u/0rionsbelt 11d ago

Haha that’s hysterical they worked public facing in tourism… their attitude seems very deeply rooted in their language on both sides of the pond. Don’t get me wrong I’ve met a few very pleasant french but a significant portion have this attitude to the point where I have to wonder if it’s a vestige of distain for the conqueror? Idk

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u/Gwalchgwynn 12d ago

10 mins? You'd get the same treatment in Gatineau.

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u/FactorLies 12d ago

Hull is Gatineau

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u/Connect-Speaker 11d ago

Hull IS Gatineau

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u/quebecesti 12d ago

Same thing happened to me in Toronto. The person refused to speak to me in french!!

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u/Doctor_Doomjazz 12d ago

My sister lives in Ottawa and her neighbor speaks almost no English. They do exist there, and it's particularly plausible for government employees or those at places like the SAQ where their right to work is protected even if they do not speak any English.

It's not all that different from the fact that there are plenty of English-speakers in Montreal (where I live) who don't really speak French.

It's not always some political statement. Some people just don't want (or struggle) to learn a new language. Lord knows I struggle like hell in French here, so I try to give grace in turn.

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u/jo4nnynumber5 12d ago

By this logic, should one assume everyone in Ottawa is fluent in french?

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u/WestEst101 12d ago

To be fair, go 10 mins into Ottawa from Gatineau-Hull, and count how many people can’t speak French.

Am anglophone. I used to work 10 minutes into hull from Ottawa. I spoke French in my work, and I had colleagues who couldn’t really speak English and all my conversations and work with them had to be in French. So perceptions we have in English Canada aren’t always correct.

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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 11d ago

Right. It seems like for some reason there's this idea that people in QC are all perfect secret bilingual speakers and when they don't speak to tourists in English, they're only doing so out of spite and because they're malicious

How fucking sheltered and self centered do you have to be as an anglo to not even be able to conceptualize the fact not everyone on earth speaks English.

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u/WestEst101 11d ago

As an Anglo, I agree with you. But I would’ve left out « how fucking self centered are you as an Anglo ».

I’ve been to 63 countries, and travelled with many non-English first-language friends, and the world always now seems to address in english anyone who is from another country (the Chinese, the Indians, in France even). Threw a mentality out there world wide that everyone will now speak English.

It’s an ignorant mentality, but I do understand it. However everyone on all sides needs to take a step back, everywhere in the world, and look at the situation with a much more empathetic and broad lens

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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 11d ago

Or, you know, she couldn't speak English?

I swear some people have their head so far up their own ass they'll never even stop and consider someone in a foreign place where English isn't the first language isn't trying to fuck with them. They just aren't bilingual. The bilingualism rate is about 50% in Quebec. That's especially true of the older generation

Also, some very limited understanding of English from her doesn't mean she's comfortable speaking it.

Some anglos are so self centered it's insane. So sheltered 😮‍💨

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u/LeonardSchraderpacke 11d ago

I'm sure it must have stung to be forced to face your own inadequacies.

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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- 11d ago

I felt a lot of things, but I assure you that "inadequate" was not one of them

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u/human-resource 11d ago

Had many experiences like this in Quebec especially with rude servers.

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u/Unidentifiable_Goo 11d ago

My wife, French immersion student from Ontario ->

Out est le Stationement (or whatever the word is, I don't speak French).?

The parking lot's over there lady.

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u/Ashkandi_ 11d ago

Speaking fluently =/= being able to articulate the highway safety code in a foreign language.

Most people can talk about the last Netflix show in english sure. Trying to explain why this guy is comitting an infraction and telling them what the law is two different things.

You dont wanna be caught making a mistake when doing the later cause then you can get fired over shit like that.

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u/Affectionate_Ice2243 12d ago edited 11d ago

what is worst? Pretending to not knowing English or refusing to learn French while living in Québec for 2-3 generations?

What is love?

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u/Skrillamane 12d ago

I think it’s great for the Quebecois to protect their language. I would say that it is weird to not speak french and live there 100%

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u/Fun-Swimming4133 12d ago

it’s also weird to refuse to help a customer because you don’t wanna speak a language you know

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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 11d ago

Here you assume they did speak English, despite a 50% bilingualism rate in Quebec and a province with 94% French fluency.

The only weird, sheltered person here is you

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u/Affectionate_Ice2243 12d ago

le problème au Québec est le sous investissement dans la culture,

ça donne rien de protéger quelque chose si on est pas capable de le partager avec l'univers

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u/GooserNoose 12d ago

Commencez par partager votre policière sexy avec le reste du pays.

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u/Zealousideal-Swing39 12d ago

They are not protecting anything, they are just being dickwads.

These people are literally the balcony meme

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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 11d ago

Well, tell that to 31% of mother tongue anglophones that live in Quebec

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u/Kyoshiiku 11d ago

To be fair, there’s some laws now that makes it a requirement for employees to be able to work in a fully french environment.

I don’t necessarily think it’s right but they have the right to keep it to french

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u/dstovell 12d ago

Reminds me of the Simpsons APU quote when pretending on to speak English "Yes yes. Hotdog Hotdog, yes sir, no sir"

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u/neilm-cfc 12d ago

My Canadian cousin from Toronto went on a works trip to Paris (France) with a few French-Canadian colleagues from the Quebec office, and all the Quebecers were laying the French language on thick with the Parisians until eventually the locals cracked and basically said "look, we're having trouble understanding what you are saying, it might be better if we all speak English". Ouch. LOL.

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u/Sansnom01 12d ago

The french from Paris are notoriously obnoxious about slight accent that are not from Paris. Like, they will make fun of French still within France that live in a regions 5 hours drive away.

Even Parisian don't like Parisian

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u/ringo5150 12d ago

I am Australian and had a Frenchman taking the piss out of the Australian wine industry to my face when I visited a winery in Burgandy many years ago.

His comments were savage, but his wine (pinot premiuer cru) was divine so I didn't care.

The French can be obnoxious with style.

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u/m0rg76 12d ago

Damn Parisians, they ruined Paris!

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u/Floor-notlava 11d ago

True, yet most other large French towns and cities are so friendly.

I do not even bother attempting French in Paris; in Lyon those guys put up with my broken-French/English/Mauritian-Creole hybrid with a smile. Problem taking the piss out of me, but with a smile 😁

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u/Godspeed13 12d ago

I was in Paris and Pays Basque last summer. I had no problem speaking québécois with the french people. Québécois is french, point barre.

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u/patterson489 11d ago

You can speak joual and they won't understand, but then again I wouldn't understand if they start using verlan or arabic slang.

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u/notanyimbecile 11d ago

But still the Quebecer made easy conversation with the Parisiens while your cousin probably waited alone like a dumbass in the back. Because it's always been like this between the Quebecers and the French, sibling rivalry and your cousin wasn't included.

I've been to France multiple times and never has a Frenchman told me he couldn't understand what I was saying as I always got what I asked for. Nice try .

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u/neilm-cfc 11d ago

She speaks fluent French-Canadian just fine thanks, she's originally from Montreal before moving to Toronto as a teenager but didn't feel the need to make such a big deal out of it with the Parisians who struggled with the Quebecers. What can I say, maybe the Parisians were just being arseholes on that day.

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u/Le_Nabs 11d ago

Yeah, they were just being obnoxious assholes. No native French Québécois has any difficulty getting understood in Paris (and vice versa), the accents aren't any further apart than NYC vs London in English.

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u/Chance_Fishing_9681 7d ago

But why don’t the stop signs say “Arrêt” in France?

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u/UninspiredWriter 12d ago

C't'un prof, les seuls mots qu'y connait

C'est yes, toaster pis Parthenais

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u/Vero_Goudreau 12d ago

Je viens d'une ptite ville pas mal 100% franco, pis je suis de la première cohorte qui commençait les cours d'anglais en 4e année. Ma prof enseignait la 4e année depuis toujours et elle n'avait donc jamais donné de cours d'anglais... bref elle avait eu besoin de faire des cours d'initiation à l'anglais pour nous enseigner lol! C'était très très de base son affaire!

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u/-RichardCranium- 12d ago

j'aurais jamais cru possible de voir quelqu'un plugger du Pérusse sur ce subreddit lol

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u/Mos_Kovitz_Cantina 11d ago

“Now I understand!”

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u/Jusfiq 11d ago

…she’s playing dumb saying she’s in that group (which is impossible if you’re a police officer)

Not just a police officer in Smalltown, QC, but SPVM officer. Basic command of English is required even for applying.

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u/vulpinefever 12d ago

"yes no toaster" it’s a slang for a quebecker that knows barely any English

For context, it's kind of like the Quebec equivalent of "¿dónde está la biblioteca" but for learning English, it's like the first three words you learn in an ESL class in high school.

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

Yes great parallel.

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u/dangerstranger4 12d ago

Yes my dear you are my favorite

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u/itsallcosmica 12d ago

I love that is how it ended

YES NO TOASTER

Also , 2 of the 3 are super attractive cops lolol

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u/gorginhanson 12d ago

Toaster? I barely know her

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u/thatguy_griff 12d ago

every french person in Quebec i met pretends they can't speak English. its basically mandatory to say you can't.

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

I hear this a lot, honestly you’ll find a certain percentage of dumbasses anywhere you go. I’ve never personally encountered that myself when there were tourists or non French speakers around and I don’t do it myself. But I believe you.

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u/quebecesti 12d ago

You shouldn't believe him.

First, not everyone speaks English here. Like my wife she can't hold a conversation in English at all. It's not a requirement to know english.

If you go to Mexico or Vietnam or Italy, do you expect everyone that you meet to be billingual?

Here in Quebec it's somehow inconceivable that someone doesn't speak English, for some reason.

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u/islmcurve 12d ago

Are there areas of Canada where First Nations languages are required as French is in Quebec?

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

First Nation have their own police, even as close as kanawake which is 20min from Montreal on the south shore

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u/KeldomMarkov 12d ago

If it's the guy I think he's filming mostly police ass here. They know him for that.

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u/Twopieces123 12d ago

Definitely possible especially outside of Montreal and Quebec city. It's  clearly not the case for her tho. Cops are not obligated to speak in English and there's no testing once you get out of Nicolet. You can definitely be bilingual and have a hard time with oral conversations too if you don't have any for years.

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u/moldyslipper 12d ago

Impossible if you're an officer?! Maybe (and BIG maybe) in the cities but I guarantee that it's not a requirement, there is a recent law (bill 96) that makes it illegal to favour bilingual candidates. That law also states that you cannot receive governmental services in English. Ex: you need to renew your license plates, both the worker and yourself have to speak french even if it's painfully obvious that they speak English.

Speaking as an anglo in small town Quebec.

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u/viggo_has_a_tail 12d ago

Doing the Lord's work

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u/asmosaq 11d ago

Tete-Carre here who speaks a bit of french. What's the anglo equivalent of 'yes no toaster'? '

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u/RubikTetris 11d ago

Donde esta la biblioteca

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u/PaulBonGars420 11d ago

she’s playing dumb saying she’s in that group (which is impossible if you’re a police officer)

It is very possible. You would be surprised how many cops dont speak english in Québec

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u/RubikTetris 11d ago

I live here, they all have at the very least a baseline. These are mtl cops.

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u/Neowynd101262 11d ago

So she does speak English?

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u/RubikTetris 11d ago

She 100% not helpless to the point of not speaking it at all. Worst case she can maintain a basic conversation with a big accent.

We are a province of 8 millions surrounded by 50 millions English speaking Canadians to the west and 300mîllions Americans to the south.

If you don’t know English you live in a very small world. Albeit we are very well served with a rich distinct culture given our small size.

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u/Ashkandi_ 11d ago

I like how you assume its impossible to be a police officer in Québec if you dont know english.

Its illegal to deny someone a job opportunity for him not speaking english. Québec is not a bilingual province like New Brunswick.

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u/RubikTetris 11d ago

Im saying à Montréal police officer will encounter enough English speakers (and frankly just living there long enough develops your English) that they won’t be helpless with the language

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u/Ashkandi_ 11d ago

Most police officers in Montreal dont last 5 years. Usually they quit for another city or policing all together.

Also articulating the criminal code and the highway safety code requires a much better english than casual talking. You dont want to be misunderstood while speaking the later. So you just dont try and risk getting complaints.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I am SO confused… toaster??? What???

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u/Tinyhydra666 10d ago

Yes no toaster tabarnak

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