Live in french in Montréal
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Why does it not say "bladon" (the local word for it, BTW - not sure if there IS a way to properly spell it) on a corn can?
Blé d'inde
Indian wheat
Blé d'inde is in the official french dictionary as a synonym for MAIS.
It come from the first europeans that came in America. They thought that they were in Asia.
Quebecers have a long history.
If you sent me for a can of it would I find it? You've just blown your point about "standard" all to hell
...and the first Europeans here were Vikings
...and the first Europeans here were Vikings
So English doesn't have synonyms and homonyms? It has even more than French. Heck, even Esperanto is not perfect in that respect, though still far better than English.
You seem to be suggesting that French is drowning in so many synonyms and homonyms as to make it impossible for French speakers to understand one another. Though that is a problem that does exist in French, it's actually even worse in English yet we still understand one another usually due to some of these words being more commonly used than others.
Are you reading the same thread ... or just the parts you can knit into the inexact argument for which you've become known? I'm suggesting spoken French on a people level is several different things than the stuff they teach in school. Impossible? That's your exaggeration - and, No. Difficult? sometimes. Confusing? Ask a Montrealer speaking with someone from Noranda
"Blé d'inde" or Blé des indes
Direct translation is wheat from India but the origin is the American continents...
That's the French from France for you...
While working working as "Band Aid" (what they call the first man/ ambulance driver) for a pipeline company in '75 in Rigaud Quebec I happened to go to the warehouse trailer where a typical separatist Québecer was P.O."d because the warehouse man couldn't speak french..
So I ask him what he wanted...
His answer ....."Une spark plug pour ma chain-saw" in a typical northern Ontario/ quebecer french...
Several items (Machine parts) I pointed out to him on the counter for him to identify in french he gave the names in frenchified english...
English speaking only people in the forum wouldn't know But you Wolf...from the Sudbury area ......must know what I'm talking about...
That was one of the typical separatist hypocrites I met out there..
Thankfully, I met some a lot of sensible Quebec francophones, but they didn't speak up for fear of repercussions from the Quebec Union
But they spoke up at the two separation votes....
The first Europeans here were Irish. Beat ol' Leif and his band of merry psychopaths by three and a half centuries.
Lol @ the Northern Ontario Boyz.... Even if they don't speak French(like me) they still know French.
I never eared about Beat ol'leif. Can you tel me more about this ?
Chritopher Columbus (Italian) "discover" america in 1492, 524 years ago for the Spain Crown.
Jacques Carier was here in 1534. 482 years ago and Samuel de Champlain founded Québec in 1608, 408 years ago.
But, theoriticly, Viking was here before Chirstopher Colombus. so... we can say that Vicking was first Europeen here.
That said, my point was that first europeans that came here first, never seen corn before, in the abscence of word to name it, first french called that blé d'inde. Most of Quebecers kept this name, and Mais appeared before in Europe.
He he.. You will never see a Quebecers who don't speak English working in the ROC. He will never be hired. Be honest.
I don't have any probloem with history, but obviously, you have one with reading. I always talk about America
