Originally posted by Dirty Vader
Yeah right... prove it, revan!!! 😈 J'ai vu un clochard dans un train et je lui est donné une orange. What does tht mean?
It means that you saw a hobo on a train and you gave him an orange.
I speak Canadian too!! Well, sorta... *in Canadian accent* Americans are just plain dumb, eh? (somebody wrote that on a wall outside my school)
Well, I'd have to say I do hear "eh" used quite a bit. Not all the time, and some people are definitely worse about it than others, but it does pop up. Mind you, I hear lots of people from other countries use it too, so...
The biggest stereotype I hear from non-Canadians is supposedly the way we pronouce "about". Every single time I talk to someone from the U.S., when it comes to accents, they always bring up the "out and about in a boat" thing, as if we all mis-pronounce "about" and "out". Honestly, I have NEVER ONCE heard any Canadian I know mis-pronounce those words. I HAVE heard some accents from the east coast that may sound that way (e.g. Nova Scotia, Newfoundland), but not from central/eastern Canada. THAT is one thing that really bugs me.
'Course, they got me when it comes to "eh"... 😉
-Skywa|ker