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[fiery plume]

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[spare zodiac]

It sounds funny

And most French people will make fun of accents

[left hearth]

is it viewed as some "lower-classed" dialect?

*its not but like by people who view it that way

[spare zodiac]

Just foreign

[spice hinge]

It’s not viewed as lower class, just as funny sounding and foreign

[spare zodiac]

Québec is like as rich as France right

It's kinda like Belgium but you hear the accent

Québec is pretty respected, they "speak French more than we do"

For example they translate happy meal

To joyeux festin

[steel summit]

also their stops signs say arrêt

[solemn isle]

If anything québécois sounds something like if a bunch of farmers had random Shakespearean vocab for English

People in France will have varied reactions to it, from amusement to admiration to ridicule

Usually they're at least lightly discriminatory but won't necessarily realize that's what they're doing

[steel summit]

it's a bit like how very strong scottish accents sound to americans tbh

although i'm not a native speaker, there is something that feels really unexpected and silly about certain quebecois vowels coming from a metropolitan french perspective

very hard to explain why, but i don't think there's a parallel among english dialects