The Canadian Thread

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Alpo]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[punxsutawneypete]

On 8/9/2024 at 1:23 PM, Alpo said:

I've gone to Canada many times in my life.  I think that is a pitcher for holding bags of milk.  Just put the bag in the pitcher and cut a little bit off the corner of the bag to pour the milk out of.

 

[punxsutawneypete]

On 4/24/2024 at 11:17 PM, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

That makes me want to get out my red wool coat and Webley .455.

[Alpo]

[punxsutawneypete]

For many years my extended family and I went to Quebec Province for family fishing trips.  The collective sigh you heard was the locals realizing they didn't have to hear me trying to speak French any more. 😂

[Rip Snorter]

Ah, Quebec!  I can recall when, many years back,  they couldn't understand a French woman, with advanced degrees in language from fine French Universities.

[punxsutawneypete]

32 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Ah, Quebec!  I can recall when, many years back,  they couldn't understand a French woman, with advanced degrees in language from fine French Universities.

Years ago my cousin Billy and I were taking a French class at Georgetown University.  When I told the instructor, a lady from Marseilles, that I was taking the class because I frequently went to Quebec Province, she said that she couldn't understand the French Canadians.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

On 8/10/2024 at 3:23 AM, Alpo said:

 

4 hours ago, punxsutawneypete said:

I've gone to Canada many times in my life.  I think that is a pitcher for holding bags of milk.  Just put the bag in the pitcher and cut a little bit off the corner of the bag to pour the milk out of.

 

 

....... that's what we had them for ......  🙃

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

14 hours ago, punxsutawneypete said:

Years ago my cousin Billy and I were taking a French class at Georgetown University.  When I told the instructor, a lady from Marseilles, that I was taking the class because I frequently went to Quebec Province, she said that she couldn't understand the French Canadians.

A minor part of the answer to that is the mixed use of English/American/First Nation words and pronunciation that have crept into the Quebec version of French since 1760

The main reason is the result of the final capture of Quebec, in 1759, by the British, on the Plains of Abraham.

With that, the connection with France in North America was severed.

Few or no new French immigrants to the continent, thus cutting off the evolution of the language.

The Quebecois version of the French language of today is closer to the language of 1750 France, especially that of the peasants who formed the majority of those who were the original settlers.

(A number of people now referred to as "Cajons" were Acadians deported to Louisiana in an attempt by the British to get rid of some who were either deemed troublemakers or were in the way.) 

[punxsutawneypete]

28 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

A minor part of the answer to that is the mixed use of English/American/First Nation words and pronunciation that have crept into the Quebec version of French since 1760

The main reason is the result of the final capture of Quebec, in 1759, by the British, on the Plains of Abraham.

With that, the connection with France in North America was severed.

Few or no new French immigrants to the continent, thus cutting off the evolution of the language.

The Quebecois version of the French language of today is closer to the language of 1750 France, especially that of the peasants who formed the majority of those who were the original settlers.

(A number of people now referred to as "Cajons" were Acadians deported to Louisiana in an attempt by the British to get rid of some who were either deemed troublemakers or were in the way.) 

Thank you for the history lesson.

I did my best to learn the language in Quebec because we went there on numerous occasions.  It seemed to be appreciated that I made the effort to speak the language. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[DeaconKC]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

On 8/10/2024 at 9:35 PM, Rip Snorter said:

Ah, Quebec!  I can recall when, many years back,  they couldn't understand a French woman, with advanced degrees in language from fine French Universities.

A fellow officer was being assigned to Spain.

In one of the classes, the subject of language came up.

The MSGT running the class asked for a show of hands: "How many here speak Spanish?"

One cocky fellow confidently raised his hand.

The Sergeant whipped off something to him and the cocky fellow said ... and I quote ...

"Huh?"

"You speak Mexican," the Sergeant said. "I speak Spanish."

From then on the cocky fellow had no trouble humbling himself enough to actually learn!

[Alpo]

My daughter was visiting me one time, and I took them to a Mexican restaurant for lunch.

 

The waitress was having a conversation with my son-in-law, and after she left my granddaughter turned to him and said, "Papa! She speaks Puerto Rican!"

 

When I was in the fourth grade, we lived in Tampa. Spanish was a required course in elementary school. And for some damn reason they taught us Mexican. It would have made more sense if they had taught us Cuban, but they didn't. And I learned the difference when I would visit my daughter in Puerto Rico. Because they don't talk Mexican in Puerto Rico.

 

Just like they don't talk English in America.

[John Kloehr]

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Just like they don't talk English in America.

 Because one was not enough.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Alpo]

3C is about 37°. I've seen a lot of Floridians walking around in shorts in 40° weather. The snow - not so much, but the cold.

 

30 c is almost 90°. If Aussies are walking around with full length fur coats on in 90° weather, they're stranger than I thought they were.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

And a reminder: Canadian girls are tough!!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Alpo]

So what you're saying is, Canadians don't know how to spell?

 

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Naw, it's just a remnant of our colonial, European past and a way to show "We Are Different From You!"

For instance: in diabetic sugar level readings, we rely on the British system, an ocean away, rather than the system used by our next door neighbour (HEE-HEE, there we did it again!), one that is far more precise.

The metric system and before that, the Imperial measurement system rather than the same one used in the USA.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Never mind, in two or three months it'll be like this:

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Do do Canadians use British ounces, cups, pints, quarts, or did they toss it all and go metric?

 

 And for the record the British 20 ounce pint of beer is not 25% larger than the American 16 ounce pint of beer because the British fluid ounce is smaller than the American fluid ounce.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

We are now metric in everything I can think of.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

3 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

We are now metric in everything I can think of.

 

How about screws and bolts?

[Alpo]

I remember, back in the late 70s/early 80s, when they were force feeding us the metric system, somebody was freaking about what was going to happen to reloading, when we went to metric and there was no such thing as 7/8 by 14 anymore.

 

They told him that 7/8 by 14 would continue. They would just call it by a different designation. But it would still be 7/8 by 14.

 

So - up there, and for that matter down in Oz - is reloading equipment sold in metric or is it SAE?

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

How about screws and bolts?

OK, ya got me there!

I forgot that most hardware stores are stocking both!

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

23 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

 

So - up there, and for that matter down in Oz - is reloading equipment sold in metric or is it SAE?

  

 

  ..... yes, ...... maybe ....... 🙃

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Alpo]