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Bruce[_28_]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:02:35 -0300, wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:16:55 +1000, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:44:52 -0300, wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 11:12:25 -0700 (PDT), GM
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>>I have to say that my only Canadian experience was visiting Expo '67 when I was a kid, SO many of the frogs were RUDE and HOSTILE when we'd stop in a small Quebec town and ask directions, etc....they simply oozed contempt for English speakers...
>>>>
>>>>Must have been a bit akin to how blacks might have been treated traveling throughout the pre - Civil Rights era US...
>>>>
>>>>The only "ruder" travel experience I've had besides that Canadian trip was when an officious East German in an adjacent seat on a 1978 Prague - East Berlin plane trip asked me, "OH, are you Canadian?", to which I replied, "No, I'm American"...he visibly recoiled and prolly would have moved seat had the plane not been full, lol...
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Best
>>>>Greg
>>>
>>>Correct - we arrived by Cunard during Expo 67, we disembarked in
>>>Montreal but landed for a few hours first in Quebec City. My kids
>>>were little and we told them in a tourist shop they could spend $3
>>>each on a souvenir. My son wanted a little desk flag and asked the
>>>owner how much it was and the man pretended not to understand English.
>>>He was just 5 at the time and it annoyed me, so I took his hand and
>>>said 'come on all of you, the man here doesn't speak English so we'll
>>>go to one of the many other stores' could see by his face he knew damn
>>>well what I said and I turned back from the door and told him
>>>something he could do that was very rude, in French Kids didn't
>>>know what I was saying.
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>>It's hard not to feel superior when you speak such a great language.
>
>That's right. I worked for a commercial photographer and one day the
>girl in the store came and asked me to help her, a woman from PQ who
>didn't speak English. So I go out and help her select the pic she
>wants etc and as she is leaving, she turns and says to me, 'You speak
>terrible French' so I said to her 'No, I speak real Parisian French,
>you speak some sort of Patois' - she was fit to be tied

But do you really speak French? Something tells me you don't.

I can imagine Québécois getting ****ed off being surrounded by
loudmouthed, entitled English speaking North Americans.