On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 20:21:21 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-07-01 8:02 p.m., wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:16:55 +1000, Bruce >
>
>>> 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
>
>My good friend was born and raised in Baie Comeau, and moved here when
>he was 10. I met him when we were 16 and, even though he had a French
>name, I had no idea that his first language was French. He became a
>pilot and his first job was with a regional airline back in Baie
>Comeau. His wife was looking forward to the French immersion and
>leaning French. He told her not to speak French there, that it is a
>horrible version of French.

According to that logic, North American English is a horrible version
of real English. A colonial pigeon accent if you wish.