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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?

Alright, the temperature in my office during the day is 11 degrees and it’s just what’s needed (But the family will come soon and turn on the heating)

How to pass an interview in one tweet

Stocking up on popcorn

CATCOACHING. The cat is explaining to Yuki how to play with a spring. Or possibly the other way around, Yuki is showing the cat. We haven’t figured it out yet. But we captured this rare moment of idyll.

Target, your search function is the worst on the planet! The first hundreds of results for “triangle” are, I don’t know, triple triangles, not the simple triangle I was looking for, and a ruler, something the British refer to as a set square (by the way, it’s also strange to call something a square when it’s actually triangular). My daughter initially wanted a triangle for her architecture classes, and now she’s distracted by thoughts of the seaside instead of focusing on her engineering classes. Please fix your search!

Missed you 🐕

When it’s cold (froid) or hot (chaud) outside, for example, the French say Il fait froid or Il fait chaud. I ask in class, why is the verb faire (to do) used here? Who is this he (il)? And then I thought about it. In Russian, the heat or cold weather is generally “stands”. Try explaining to foreigners why the weather “stands” 🧍🏼.

But it’s actually interesting. The rule looks like this: Because the weather does things, it’s not just there being something. And because French grammar absolutely needs a subject (il).