i did also once try skipping to the end of the french once for fun and found it frustrating how often i'd be marked wrong for perfectly valid translations, but that's probably just a mix of being too québécoise and the difficulties of accounting for all the ways you could translate something
now that i think about it more i only really used it for a few months before i decided to just dive into watching/reading things with heavy use of a dictionary so i might be wrong about how good it was
i felt like it was an okay start for me with spanish a few years ago, but i did also already speak french so maybe that just made it easier to begin with
not sure how it is now though with the changes they've made. i've definitely heard some not so great thigns
not that i disagree in principle that we shouldn’t have to prove specific relevance but when even areas that haven’t had to justify themselves much politically are affected i find it hard to see what difference it would make to the outcome
j'ai mal à mon québec :\
i once had to fix a page on french wikipedia which claimed that québec english had 20 million speakers in québec (population 9 million)
not sure where they got this number but i'm sure the parti québécois would be very concerned to hear this
the derivation for forbear is cool but also the word feels wrong and i’ll probably continue to say forebearer
i just found this out a couple days ago too when i was reading a paper and was laughing to myself about the use of ‘forbear’ before looking it up
when did everyone decide that everything that happens involving the US is actually a distraction from something else?
i feel like i missed the memo
oh and IX of course
don't know enough to really have a feel myself, but it does feel like every place i look has somewhat different ideas for a lot of the stems (besides maybe II and IV)
ça fait huit ans que je suis venue au québec en tant qu’immigrante et on a *jamais* questionné le fait que je sois ici
on prétend souvent qu’être contre l’immigration c’est pas être raciste, mais j’ai de la misère à imaginer que c’est pas parce que je suis blanche
a couple of years ago the neda (for eating disorders) shut down their hotline and fired their few employees (coincidentally right after they unionised) to replace it with a chatbot that then turned out to be perfectly happy to give weight loss advice
proscribed by the académie proto-indo-européenne?
always fun when someone italicises IPA and has an /a/ become /ɑ/
when i first came out at 16, and even for a couple years after that, the only trans people i knew were transmasc. later on though, even ignoring new people i met, i had multiple people i knew come out as transfem and it more or less balanced out, so that basically tracks for me
dérive and derive maybe, although i don't see that being a source of confusion ever
perhaps we could put people on the moon and hope the lower gravity could allow for better cheese pulls
oh yeah i hadn't really thought about it, but i guess it is marginally phonemic
not phonemic but it is very common in québec french at least
vit agar
i’m only taking two classes but they just had to be the earliest so i’m having to get up at 3:00. super interesting stuff but god am i tired
i will never give in and put an octopus in my aboshan deck 😤
kinda looks like those proxies you might get thinking they look cool only to quickly realise you’d rather just have a more norma card
just coincided with getting better at french in general i suppose
not sure, it just kind of happened over time. i was also 14 when i moved and my french wasn’t terribly good to begin with so there probably wasn’t as much unlearning as there might have been otherwise, so those probably had an effect
yeah that’s definitely a thing and i’m sure some particular accents would have thrown me for a loop but in general i don’t think i had a lot of issues (beyond just not having the highest level of french anyway)
i did for a while have this sense french french was somehow better or more correct, but that went away with time and i sound more or less québécois myself at this point
i never quite got it either. i started learning (clearly european) french in the US at school and when i moved to québec i never really found that it was harder to understand, even at the beginning
wetland unremarkable
