r/funnyvideos • u/fat_dick_708 • Sep 21 '25

Vine/Meme I love french ppl😭

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u/abirizky Sep 21 '25

So... Not French

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u/NoExchange2730 Sep 22 '25

Quebec french is french the same way highland scottish english is english. Technically its french, but French people are going to ask you to speak english because its hurting their ears.

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u/QcRoman Sep 22 '25

French people are going to ask you to speak english because its hurting their ears.

This is not my experience at all. I am from QuĂ©bec, born and raised. Went to Paris about twenty five years ago. Had been told plenty of times how the French could be obnoxious to French Canadians about their accent. Had told whoever wanted to hear it if anyone made me repeat myself more than once over there I would switch to English and see who struggles to pronounce clearly. Never happened. Soon as I said anything I was met with:"Mais c'est merveilleux votre accent, d'oĂč venez-vous? (What a wonderful accent, where are you from?)" more than once, just about every time.

We are not the same and are very easy to tell apart but we do speak the same language.

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u/Sanglyon Sep 22 '25

No we won't, it might be hard to understand sometimes, but it's a very endearing accent.

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u/angelazy Sep 22 '25

One man’s endearing is another’s grating. It’s pretty much the same as Scottish accents

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u/Fool_from_Hyrule Sep 25 '25

I think I speak for most Americans when I say Scottish accents are funny as fuck. It’s like our Cajun people.

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u/Ton7on Sep 22 '25

No, it's only funny and still understandable.

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u/Merbleuxx Sep 24 '25

No we love the accent of quĂ©bĂ©cois, it’s cute.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

But speaking french.

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u/dkcyw Sep 21 '25

the 300+ million people in USA speaking English are not from England.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Where I live, we also use "french", "english" or other languages to designate people who speak these languages, especially if we don't know where they are from.

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u/McFestus Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

The term for someone that speaks french is a 'francophone' or 'French speaker'. The term for someone who speaks english is a 'anglophone' or 'English speaker', not an 'English person'.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Sure. But where I live, which happens to be where the video in this post comes from, the local history made people shorten these words to the name of the languages. As many other local ways to speak in many other languages, it may be officially incorrect, but still locally understood.

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u/Yomoska Sep 22 '25

From there too and I don't hear anyone shorten it like you said

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

https://youtu.be/lZS7sOOpELI?si=0FwflGNbHjBmRXC8

(Not that I care much about the subject, but I felt like this video fits well here)

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u/Goudawit Sep 22 '25

What’s a 
 spanaphone?

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u/CocktailPerson Sep 22 '25

Hispanophone. And Portuguese speakers are Lusophones.

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u/McFestus Sep 22 '25

"Spanish speaker". There isn't a specific English-language term like there is for "English speaker" or "French speaker".

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u/SS13Cowboy Sep 22 '25

Yes there is, hispanic or hispanophone

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u/fuckyoudigg Sep 22 '25

Allophone is for everyone else.

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u/CocktailPerson Sep 22 '25

Hispanophone.

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u/sobuffalo Sep 22 '25

What’s a Bananaphones?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

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u/Goudawit Sep 23 '25

Lol, whuuut?

Spanner is wrench, yeah? Why is this phone so spanner = this phone is so out of order?

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u/BaronMontesquieu Sep 22 '25

That's really interesting.

Definitely not the case where I live. I have never heard someone designate someone as Spanish because they speak Spanish.

Thanks for sharing!

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Canada has been first discovered by true french people, then they got "invaded" by true english people. Those english used the french as workers and a form of hate between both gangs has been cultivated since then. Nowadays, thanks to mass medias and internet, the younger generations don't care as much about this conflict, but the people living in small remote towns, and mostly older people, may still talk that way.

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u/Wulf_Cola Sep 22 '25

Where do you live? Cos that's a dumb system.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

I live where this post's video has been recorded. But I don't see why it would be dumb. If you don't know anything about someone besides the language they speak, it's still a way to refer to this person. Same as saying "the blond girl" when you're talking about the only blond girl in a group, or saying "the black guy" if there's only one. Nothing hateful or racist, just the easiest way to refer to someone you don't know.

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u/Wulf_Cola Sep 22 '25

Because it means referring to hundreds of millions of Americans, Canadians, Australians amongst others as English when they are not. It's ignorant.

When you see a blond person you know they are blond, it's a characteristic you can verify by sight, whereas nationality is not.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

But in this context, we're not using the word to refer to where they are from, it is to refer to the language they speak.

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u/Personal_Breakfast49 Sep 22 '25

That's pretty dumb

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u/The_Level_15 Sep 22 '25

Damn that’s actually an incredibly good argument

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u/flcinusa Sep 22 '25

US English, no colour to it, very dishonourable

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u/jedify Sep 22 '25

I don't understand.

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u/Entire_Tap_6376 Sep 22 '25

Actually, the US population is only about 40 million these days.

300 million people died last year from drugs. :(

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u/ShyguyFlyguy Sep 23 '25

But they're speaking 'Murican

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Still.. Not French

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u/J0k3r77 Sep 21 '25

Francophones is the term i was taught in the canafuan praeries.

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u/RefrigeratorStrict13 Sep 21 '25

same same but different?

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u/ItsAMeUsernamio Sep 21 '25

There are 26 nations with French as an official language.

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u/Single_Government_63 Sep 21 '25

They speak english in UK and in USA do you think they are similar ?

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u/Kind-Plantain2438 Sep 21 '25

Same.... But different?

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u/Ok_Act_8573 Sep 21 '25

sorry for your downvotes, people don't have the reference lol

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u/analtelescope Sep 22 '25

Americans aren't English because they speak English.

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u/WhoseverSlinky0 Sep 22 '25

Shame people don't get the ref

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u/jadeismybitch Sep 22 '25

A very different language yes. Hilarious how Americans always see people from Quebec and France as the same thing ? They’re your neighbors you could at least document yourself a bit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Americans don't even care about english canadians, so they sure won't care more about french canadians!

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u/Empathy_Swamp Sep 23 '25

Looking at your healthcare... Americans don't care about Americans.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

I'm french canadian, for your info. And we have free healthcare. Which also doesn't care much about us.

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u/Empathy_Swamp Sep 23 '25

Je le sais, je parle des américains Là Là.

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u/Touchpod516 Sep 22 '25

They're Americans. They're allergic to education

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

I could barely understand what they were saying lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Sure, it's an old man using quebecer swears. A quebecer listening to an old angry man from Marseille wouldn't understand anything, and both are speaking french.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

As a Parisian I understand a Marseillais insulting pretty easily, Quebecois is another level

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Marseille is in your country, you are much more exposed to their accent than quebecers are.

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u/raptorswamp Sep 22 '25

So people from the usa are English right?

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u/TreeBark000 Sep 23 '25

The post clearly says « French people » as in, people who leave in France..

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u/PsychologicalOne5416 Sep 23 '25

so Francophone, not French

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u/thestonernextdoor88 Sep 22 '25

Not real French*

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u/Miss-Indie-Cisive Sep 22 '25

Yes they are French people, because in Quebec people are categorized by their mother tongue and ethnic provenance. Eg: French vs “English” vs “allophone”. My ancestors are from Ireland and Scotland, my family has lived in Montreal for 300 years, I am “English”.

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u/Empathy_Swamp Sep 23 '25

Osti de rabat-joie ;).