Kevin O’Leary drops out, endorses Maxime Bernier for Conservative leadership
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I think a lot of people would question that. From what I've gathered over the years, I think they've outworked the Liberals by a fair margin.
That's one good thing about Canada, everyone is welcome to his/her own opinion. Mine differs from yours obviously!
Do people in your part of the country think Trudeau has a French accent?
Yeah but that wasn't O'Leary's excuse. He said Quebec. I guess it would have looked worse if he said "I'm quitting because I can't win in Quebec or anywhere else for that matter."
Well, his name DOES have three consecutive vowels. Obviously a French homosexual terrorist.
Or possibly a Kenyan Muslim socialist.
Nobody was born in Hawaii. Everybody with a Hawaii birth certificate was born in Socialist Muslim Kenyastan.
Everywhere in your province people thought i had a French accent, over here they call it the northern accent. Perspective dude
Should ask an American... do you think Trudeau has a French accent? I ask because the perception of accents is subjective. I've heard people say the standard North American accent is sometimes mistaken for Irish in England, for example. When I hear Trudeau speak English, he doesn't sound French to me, but maybe others might be able to hear it whereas I can't.
Trudeau does have a slightly different voice than you'd expect from a native English speaker, but I always thought it was a lisp. He seems to have the same lisp in French too, but I obviously can't reliability detect accents in French.
I will say that conservative voters don't vote as hard as liberal voters. Come election day its only the liberals putting in work.
Around here the blue collar folks tend to be conservative while the white collar and minimum wage job workers seem to vote liberal. They all work hard in their own ways...
What kind of accent would you say you have?
In BC we don't speak with typical "Canadian" accents. We might just mash eastern accents together and think they are the same thing.
It is eastern but not Cape Breton eastern, from here it might as well be China lol jk.
A Cape Breton accent, now that's a special one. I only really knew one Cape Breton'r and she would pronounce, John, like Jan.... And it got annoying real quick.
Just being a English first speaker growing up around mostly french people i tend to accent the endings of words with a little french without noticing it. I can roll my "r's" no problem but that came from speaking Finnish as a child. Folks from Southern Ontario designate it a Northern Accent and i identify with that. Whereas people west on Manitoba people think im French, which is fine because i have like 3 fake french names i use.
Its like if Dasleeper were to speak English to you and i. From your perspective we would accent the same parts of words and sentences but his accents would be stronger, but you would still think were both French, but someone from Southern Ontario would say im Northern and he is French, but were both Northern. >_<
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I probably can't tell the difference between accents on the east coast. You all just sound stereotypically Canadian. There being more historical time depth on the east coast compared to the west coast, you're liable to have more differences in accent and us BC can't tell the difference.
Or at least I can't.
Or at least I can't.
That's basically what it is.
But worry not because if a Cape Breton'er, Islander Newfie and myself spoke to you in our accents you would be able to tell the difference but you might have trouble hiding your laughter
I think most Americans think the Canadian accent is like the accent the mother on "That 70s Show" had. Which is a Wisconsin accent.
It never occurs to them that Canada might have regional accents. Of course this is the country that produced a TV show ("The Bob Newhart Show") where a man who allegedly never left the state of Vermont, nor even travelled more than 20 miles from the spot he was born, spoke in a stereotypical Southern accent. Because he was working-class and not very well educated.
There are four accents in American TV: Standard, Country, Black, and Mexican.
Honestly, no.
But he sounds more English than me but i'm still more English than him without being English.
Your question presumes that the French all sound the same, and that any Francophone Canadian accent sounds anything like any French accent.
As the French would say, "C'est risible."
Regional and hell, even regional within the region. Take NB - NB has a lot of difference 'french' going on in it. There's Franglais, She'ac, Acadian, Northern French...
Language is all kinds of effed up here.
Language is all kinds of effed up here.