Deadbeat

Yeah, because NOBODY from a Minnesota team did ANY of those things, EVER...

tabs

Apparently it's not a good idea to be tall though I can't think of anyway to fix it if you are. I was informed the other day that all tall tourists are assumed to be American until stated otherwise.

I don't know how true it is, but it would explain an encounter I had with a Frenchman in a South African airport a few years ago. Blond, almost 6 foot, and white, the only thing unamerican about me was that I spoke with an Aussie accent.

godfry n. glad

Heh... We tried this in Ville de Quebec. We would enter a shop, and, as long as we said nothing, the shopkeepers would speak to us in Quebecois French, right up to the point that my wife, educated with several years of French language training, would say, "bonjour". From that point on, the shopkeepers switched to English.

I suppose the attempt is better than complete ignorance, but I still get the feeling that after leaving, the locals had a good giggle over our butchery of their language.

godfry

Late_Cretaceous

If you are from california, and you happen to be in western canada, you probably wont even have a noticable accent. Maybe just try saying "eh" instead of "dude" all the time.

MzNeko

I think that's the idea. They don't really want to hear you mangling the language, but you at least get points for trying, instead of just arrogantly expecting everyone else in the world to speak English.

That's my theory, anyway...

godfry n. glad

How about all the "likes" inserted, seemingly randomly, into sentences? Sometimes, even a short four word sentence can have "like" thrice inserted. Then there's "y'know"....like... y'know what I mean?

Or, has the pestilence spread that far north?

godfry

FoE

I got teased for that mercilessly when i moved inland from Nova Scotia. The thing that bugs me about Canadians west of New Brunswick is the k sound they pronounce in length. I say lenth, but central and western Canadians say lengkth. I know all about silent letters, but invisible ones?

FoE

Next time try salut instead of bonjour.

Godless Dave

Of course they did all those things, but they got penalties called. Well, sometimes.

Godless Dave

You're both wrong. The g isn't silent. leng-th. But the transtion from "ng" to "th" might sound like a k because you're going from a voiced consonant, ng, to an unvoiced consonant, � (th as in teeth).

(ng is usually considered one sound, an alveolar nasal stop, but the standard web fonts don't have a symbol for it.)

If I'm wrong about any of this I'm sure Gurdur will be along to correct me shortly.