Month: December 2022

Yuki’s Saturday morning on December 31st at a Montreal hotel looks like this

(It’s raining outside, muddy, and three degrees above zero)

It’s weird how an LED lighting up from swiping a card or scanning QR code from a phone coincides with such an interior like the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Montreal. It seems to me that the next step is a modified slot machine “Battleship”, where demons replace ships.

And it even has an admission fee, 15 Canadian dollars per person.

Well, what’s so surprising? It’s just street lamp lighting.

Here immediately two local words

“Dépanneur” to a Parisian might only remind them of a tow truck (Dépanneuse). Here, it refers to a convenience store stocking everything from milk to cigarettes.

“Tabagie” as I understand, is a cigarette shop. Seems like another local term. In Paris, it would be bureau de tabac

We just passed by this castle. I Googled it – it was originally built as a women’s prison, and now it’s a crematorium and funeral home.

View from the car window of the St Lawrence River. Just a couple of days ago, this area was flooded, and dozens of cars floated like buoys

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear

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Before heading to Canada, I found an interesting video about the differences between French “de métropole” and Canadian French (français québécois). Some stuff is interesting enough to make a post about it.

In French, “the girl I’m dating” (i.e., girlfriend) is “ma petite amie,” which literally translates to “my little friend.” If you remove petite, it simply becomes “my friend.” In the video, Geneviève explains that in Canadian French, a girlfriend is called “une blonde,” even if the girlfriend herself might be of any hair color, still une blonde. @[100000410142597:2048:Marina Michêne] is that true? Or do you mostly have blondes over there?

The second interesting point concerns the word liqueur. In France, it unequivocally refers to alcohol. Geneviève says that la liqueur in their casual speech also means just soda, like Coke or Sprite. What in France is called le soda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usFCMuL5FJA

And how do you decorate your Christmas tree?