The Quebequi variant of french is not really recognised by a genuine Frenchman as french, at least according to the ones I know who have been to Canada. Mind you, at least one of them was a Parisian, who spoke something that even his fellow countrymen would claim bore little resembalance to french

Even to a non-french-speaking barbarian such as myself, the difference between french as she is spoke in Quebec and that from France is so distinct as to be immediately obvious. I've been told on good authority it's not so much a pidgin dialect, but more as if someone had started with a three-hundred year old protofrench and taken it in a different direction than the people in Europe did, which when you think about it is more or less what happened.

The Quebec natives, of course, consider themselves to be speaking perfect French, and tend to get insulted if you claim otherwise.

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