Don't you think it's funny how in French, potatoes are referred to as apples?

The French word for apple is "pomme".

As some of you might know, potatoes originally came from America and weren't introduced into Europe until Columbus' voyage in 1492.

Potatoes grow in the ground, unlike apples, which grow on trees.

Do you know what the French term for potato is? It's "pomme de terre." That literally means "apple of the Earth"!

Isn't that a hoot? Who'd have thought you could confuse potatoes with apples?  ;D


All quite true, but in Quebec the most common word for potato is "patate." Whereas in France, people usually just sat "pommes" and you make the difference through context.

I have always said the first one

There are three ways to say Quebec ...

"Kay-bek"
"Cue-bek"
and the one I believe is most commonly used .. "kwuh-bek"



Most Anglo-Quebeckers would say "keh-beck" where a few would say "kwebeck". But please, and I know there are some people who do say it, but please don't say "cue-beck", it literally hurts to hear it. LOL.

The word "québécois" is pronounced in French as "kay-bay-kwah" and in English as "keh-beh-kwah" but it is rare (and incorrect, I would say) to pronounce it "kweh-behk-wah", with the W sound, because unlike the word Quebec, Québécois is still primarily a French word not really adopted into English. The present English equivalent would be "Quebecker"; however, in the opinion of many Quebeckers themselves, the ENglish word is a word that mostly Anglo-Quebeckers identify with, while they generally reject the term Québécois, because they feel that this word is really only for French-Canadians in Quebec. Many of the latter feel the same way.

Currently, the legal definition of Québécois in French and Quebecker in English is any Canadian who is a resident of the Province of Quebec. But the sociological definitions differ from these quite a bit. I've often said you can ask 10 citizens in Quebec what the definition of Québécois is and you would get ten different answers. Nobody really knows for sure, which makes this recognition of the Québécois as a nation a particularly difficult thing to interpret.

I was watching my favorite Pink Floyd video, "Welcome To The Machine," on yotube. This comment
was left, would you please translate it for me? I'm just curious as to what it says. Thanks,  ;D

Pink Floyd c'est énorme, planant, merci le net de nous donner l'occas de voir des choses que l'on ne verrait pas autrement...

Most Anglo-Quebeckers would say "keh-beck" where a few would say "kwebeck". But please, and I know there are some people who do say it, but please don't say "cue-beck", it literally hurts to hear it. LOL.

The word "québécois" is pronounced in French as "kay-bay-kwah" and in English as "keh-beh-kwah" but it is rare (and incorrect, I would say) to pronounce it "kweh-behk-wah", with the W sound, because unlike the word Quebec, Québécois is still primarily a French word not really adopted into English. The present English equivalent would be "Quebecker"; however, in the opinion of many Quebeckers themselves, the ENglish word is a word that mostly Anglo-Quebeckers identify with, while they generally reject the term Québécois, because they feel that this word is really only for French-Canadians in Quebec. Many of the latter feel the same way.

Currently, the legal definition of Québécois in French and Quebecker in English is any Canadian who is a resident of the Province of Quebec. But the sociological definitions differ from these quite a bit. I've often said you can ask 10 citizens in Quebec what the definition of Québécois is and you would get ten different answers. Nobody really knows for sure, which makes this recognition of the Québécois as a nation a particularly difficult thing to interpret.


It gets so confusing, that lately I just say PQ lol

I was watching my favorite Pink Floyd video, "Welcome To The Machine," on yotube. This comment
was left, would you please translate it for me? I'm just curious as to what it says. Thanks,  ;D

Pink Floyd c'est énorme, planant, merci le net de nous donner l'occas de voir des choses que l'on ne verrait pas autrement...


It means: Pink Floyd is huge, euphoric. Thanks to the Net for giving us the chance to see some things that otherwise we wouldn't be able to.

It means: Pink Floyd is huge, euphoric. Thanks to the Net for giving us the chance to see some things that otherwise we wouldn't be able to.


Thanks for the translation. I was going to try an online translation but every time I try I get a literal translation
that is usually harder to read than the original language.  :P

how do you say "vulevuqucheavemoi"?  :-\\

how do you say "vulevuqucheavemoi"?   :-\\


It's "voulez vous couchez, avec moi" I think

It's "voulez vous couchez, avec moi" I think


Very close, but just a couple peccadilloes. It's written <<Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?>> with a hyphen between 'voulez' and 'vous' because of the subject-verb inversion, and the verb 'coucher' in the infinitive.