Kopijeger posted:

Apparently Bioware had unconventional flag choices on the language selection screen of their own forums (maybe they are still in place):

Should have gone further, though. Quebec flag for French, Austrian for German, San Marino for Italian, Cuban for Spanish.

Byzantine posted:

It's also why it's pretty stupid when other New World inhabitants get all bitchy about us using "American".

Golbez posted:

Does Labrador have some affinity to Quebec, or vice versa, that we should know about?

Milo and POTUS posted:

More a general geography question but we were just talking about it but were there any other major shipping rivers in Canada than the St Lawrence?

Grape posted:

how do they handle the Mexico stuff, do they just call it Vermont

Cat Mattress posted:

In French, the contraction of definite articles "le" and "la" to just " l' " is part of regular grammar (not colloquial) if the next word begins with a vowel sound. Contracting when the next word begins with a consonant can happen in speech, depending on dialect and accent but wouldn't be transcribed to text normally; at least not in official names. (If you're writing dialogue in a novel, obviously, you can get away with writing like " 'l est sorti d'la f'ret pour aller à l'plage " or whatever.)

Soviet Commubot posted:

Not a map but one of my favorite things on the Internet.

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

The couch is the size of a fridge tipped sideways.

It's pot. Marijuana.

I think ink is inquiries.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

Weren't they having problems with French people moving there because its "Cheap" and the French can't concieve of a France with multiple cities. I remember reading several articles about Montrealites complaining about French international-Gentrification.

Kreez posted:

My french is not native, and I find Parisian/French French accents exhausting to keep up with in movies or TV or whatever. Subtitles are definitely preferred if it's anything meaty.

It is quite strong though, (and would probably get back to approaching native if I moved back to Quebec and used it every day for a few months) so maybe you just have to hit a certain level after which accents become more of an issue than just understanding the language in the first place.

ToxicAcne posted:

That map kind of confirms my belief that policy decisions in Quebec are far more influenced by what's going on in Western Europe (particularly France), rather than the rest of Canada. See also Bill 21.

Platystemon posted:

Ibblebibble posted:

Does Quebecois French follow metropolitan French for numbers?

Carbon dioxide posted:

Byzantine posted:

fuckin lol

Blut posted:

Even the lowest UV areas in the US are higher than Germany/the British Isles though. But Germany has almost twice as high the rate of skin cancer.

Could be a reporting issue though I guess, yeah.

Platystemon posted:

This map is politically loaded.

Rivière Saguenay isn’t a tributary of the the Saint Lawrence. It drains directly into the sea.

BonHair posted:

The Israelites did have a fairly strong claim to it, what with being lost there for 40 years.

Was it even geopolitically relevant at that time or was it just a big useless desert?

Phlegmish posted:

I'm not baptized simply because my parents aren't religious, and neither am I.

There is actually a thing here in Belgium where quite a few people have sought to be 'debaptized', usually out of disgust with the Church for some reason or other. I'm pretty sure that this has no sacramental meaning within Christianity, so I assume it just means that they're stricken from church records and membership rolls.

SlothfulCobra posted:

These are sentences written by an insane person.

Starks posted:

A quick Google suggests that they drink mostly light roasted coffee, which most people find easier to drink but is actually stronger in terms of caffeine. So two litres of that a day. Respect.

Pope Hilarius II posted:

I'm sorry my man but that's just not true. Yes, French has a more consistent pronunciation/spelling matching record than English but that's like saying you're the least incontinent person in a home for the elderly and decrepit. If you're an L2 speaker of French and you're presented with a word you've never heard pronounced that ends on an S or a T, good luck figuring out whether to pronounce that letter or not. Even some L1 speakers make that mistake, for instance you're supposed to say the S in 'Anvers' but many people from France don't do it because they've never heard 'Anvers' pronounced.

Randarkman posted:

Yeah, and with French at least part of that is that older versions of French used to pronounce all of the letters. In fact that reminds me of this thing someone linked me of someone singing House of the Rising Sun in Medieval French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I’ve always wondered if an alt history unified Scandinavian state would try to standardize into one nordic language.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Quebec seems to really like to think of itself as "french" instead of as its own thing after being disconnected for 300 years.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Mustang posted:

Nicknames are dumb as hell, what's so difficult about calling people by their name?

Minenfeld! posted:

Have a better name.

Saladman posted:

It’s really not. My wife is Swiss romande. I speak French daily. I lived there for 6 years. It has a few different words but it’s about as different as Chicago English and San Francisco English.

We live elsewhere now and no one ever, ever says "you must be from Switzerland" or guesses "Switzerland" for where she’s from, even after a minute of speaking French (eg with waiters or whatever), e: unless she says huitante.

Private Speech posted:

I had no idea Austria has conscription! What is that even for?

ChaseSP posted:

Cappuccinos should have less caffeine in general so unless you drink right before bed it's probably fine to have one for a pick me up mid day. Especially for a coffee drinking culture that'll have high caffeine tolerance too.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Just use dark roast (I don't know where they sell some but I bet you can find some in the garbage where it belongs). Bing bong less caffeine!

SlothfulCobra posted:

I think Pennsylvania does usually have a tiny little coastline, but here it's been stolen by Indiana and Ohio.

Peggotty posted:

Jesus Christ Canada, why do you need so many American things

Platystemon posted:

Ironically, none of the states with Canada as their top export partner grow oranges commercially.