• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    French-Canadian from Quebec here: the same way an American will use a french word mid sentence to add a certain je-ne-sais-quoi

    But they tend to go way overboard with them, ending with bastardized, barely comprehensible french. And they dare correct us when we use the proper french terms instead of the ones they abuse.

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      8 months ago

      I was watching a video on YouTube today where the person was demonstrating some things and kept going “voila”, but everytime he said it, he didn’t really pronounce the v, so it sounded more like moilah. One step away from moolah (slang for money).

      It was bizarre.

      I just couldn’t not hear it. I completely forget what the video was about.