On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:22:35 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


"David R.Birch" wrote in message
...
Ed Huntress wrote:


LOL! I think we're seeing the attitude of an English-speaking Canadian
here...

My favorite was a remark made a French kid, about my age then (20), when
I was studying in Europe, when I asked him what he thought of Canadian
French speakers. "Whatever it is they speak, it isn't French," he said.
g

That's what they say about anyone who doesn't speak the same patois they
do.

Much like what my German girlfriend says about those who speak other
dialects of Deutsch.

And the governor of California does NOT speak German, he speaks Austrian!

Tribalism is alive and well.

David

Not to beat this old horse, but we had some close friends who were French
Canadian. He was a highly educated MD, an international representative for
Carter-Wallace pharmaceuticals. She was a beautiful farm girl from Quebec.
She was often upset when her husband wouldn't take her on his trips to
Paris. He went there frequently but only took her once in a while.

One night when he was alone, sitting on my parents' patio and drunk enough
to just about fall off his chair, he told us why: Her accent was so
embarrassing, he said, that he would only take her to Paris when he wasn't
going to be meeting with customers. d8-)
DiL in the other London will never teach in the "better" schools
because of her cockney accent.

























l
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada