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ha! and i thought the language that my parents and grandparents spoke was french. no wonder i don't understand much french! they were actually speaking joual aka quebecois...

and i can understand a lot of that!

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téte d'poche .... if that's even a remotely correct spelling. Loosely translated : pain in the arse and stubborn as a mule.

i cant do accents on my webtv/lj interface,but nevertheless...

yeah,mom used to call me that A LOT. it's 'head of straw',which is,according to babelfish,
'tete de paille'.

of course that's french,so i think the 'straw' part is different in joual.

"tête de cochon", perhaps? That's what we say when mean stubborn.

head of a pig...that's a different one,but good too!

what's your first language?

french. As in french canadian. as in joual quebecois! So if you need anymore of these, you know where to ask!

do you speak proper french?(as in NOT french canadian, joual,etc..)

no,i don't speak proper french nor do i speak joual,though i obviously know a few phrases! i do understand a lot of what my relatives said. when my grandmother,who was born in quebec and moved to new hampshire when she was fourteen,i think, was alive,she always tried to speak english,but sometimes she just couldn't translate something,so she'd speak her french and most of the time we understood her. i've found it's easier to understand a language as spoken or written than to speak or write it yourself.

i took spanish in high school and college but haven't used it much,surprisingly,considering there's quite a large hispanic population here and unlike my relatives,who learned english,it seems many hispanics rely on translators or things being in spanish rather than learning english.

anyhow...

my other grandparents spoke a funny combination of joual french and english. it was pretty funny to hear my mother on the phone,speaking half and half. i don't know why they did that.i mentioned it to my dad,and i think he hardly noticed,but he did it too!

a lot of insulting things mom said to me in french were actually said not in a nasty tone,but in a humorous one. besides being called 'head of straw' a lot--and i was and am stubborn--she used to also say 'mange le terre' when i whined about things. i can't spell very well because it was all verbal,but i think you can make out that one!

one of my favorites--because it made me laugh--is 'jouie in le schme [word for road of street],feh crozee. i'm definitely using some phonetic spelling there.'if you play in the road you'll get smushed'. ha. heard that one? and know how it would be spelled?

it was nice to stumble across that page on joual so that some things were familiar. i used to ask my mother what things meant in french,including french subtitled films,and often she didn't know,and i couldn't figure out why,since french was HER first language. now i can see why she didn't know all the words.

aha! Yeah, her french is probably a bit different from mine, as she speaks a lot of english with it and we just use a few words. But that thing about a road, we would say "jouer dans le chemin (pronounce "dans le ch'min")
There is big difference between french here and french in France or Belgium. When I went there, I had to be really carefull how I was speaking so they would understand me, and try and copy their accent! It's sounds sooo different. But I like my not so proper french. It sounds way more relaxed or something!

hi -random question! Can you tell me where you got your icon? I'm seeing them everywhere and they are cute. thanks!

yeah,they're pretty cool! go to this website:

http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

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