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L'Académie française disagrees

TIL the French Language Police is a thing

See, the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur...

French-Canadian from Quebec here: the same way an American will use a french word mid sentence to add a certain je-ne-sais-quoi…

But they tend to go way overboard with them, ending with bastardized, barely comprehensible french. And they dare correct us when we use the proper french terms instead of the ones they abuse.

I don't get it. How is French an American language? I don't understand the meme overall either

To be fair if you're used to "metropolitan" French then some Québécois accents can sound very "redneck".

Why does that big Spain patch look like Ontario?

It is kinda interesting you can see the way it spreads around water. English with the Atlantic Ocean to the East, French with the Mississippi & Ohio rivers, and Spanish with the Gulf of Mexico and eventually hitting the Colorado River

I think that is DR Congo. More french speakers than France.

They made up for it by surrendering to the British and having their land sold to the Americans.

North American French is like that

It is much more formal and traditional compared to France French (No idea about Haiti)

Because of laws preventing loan words

As a yank who lived in the UK (East Sussex) for several years, I can share the sentiments of my mates there that they believe we Americans still speak a more traditional version of the language than they do now. Specifically pronunciation of words.

For example, Americans have retained the pronunciation of the final “r” in words like “father” and “mother,” while the UK has dropped it. Americans have maintained the “flat a” sound of cat in words like “path” and “class” whereas the UK has mostly replaced that sound with the “broad a” of “father.”

It's not an exact science, but the rate of change in the language there has gone beyond the 18th century version we Americans still speak today and thus, it can be said American English, at least pronunciation, is more traditional.

https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2022/08/08/is-the-original-english-accent-still-alive-in-parts-of-the-united-states/ an interesting article on the subject that includes videos

Then there's the people who say Shakespeare makes much more sense, flows better, and better play on words when spoken with an older UK accent (or Irish?), so nothing like North American.

(Lots of search results but no easy blurb to read on what it was. But I recall hearing some and it was nothing like North American accent.)

if Ontario defines what "liberal" is, then we're doomed.

Yeah real french is skipping french class and forgetting that quebec exists :)

Ontario has some significant pockets of french Canadians