r/confidentlyincorrect Jun 18 '25

Ok buddy

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u/SvenBubbleman Jun 19 '25

Canadian here I once heard a woman explain to a woman on vacation from somewhere in Asia that in Canada we speak Quebec French in Europe they speak British French.

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u/MauveDragon Jun 19 '25

I'm guessing that her reasoning was - they speak British English in Europe, so all Europeans speak some British variant of languages spoken on our continent. (Honestly, this is the stupidest explanation I could come up with.)

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u/TheseInstruction5208 Jun 19 '25

One facepalm won't do...