The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 608

Acajack · #**12141** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by lio45

Wow, I've never ever ever ever heard "sept up". I'm curious now if the other Québécois in here have heard people say it like that? (I'm not much of a pop drinker but I've still got decades of experience around people...)
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I've only heard "sept-up" as a joke, and 95% of those times it was probably in reference to the Air Canada case.

Acajack · #**12142** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nathan

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought poo-TEEN would be more the France-french pronunciation (vs poo-TIN), like fa-REEN vs the more Quebecois fa-RIN?

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The anglo POO-TEEN is not really the French from France way of saying it, even though it's a bit closer to it than the Quebec one is. You're correct for the rest though, even though in Quebec there is often an S or Z sound in the last syllable (tzin or tsin).

Acajack · #**12143** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Loco101

Everybody born and raised in Timmins pronounces "poutine" the correct francophone way.

I remember some of my francophone friends were going to university down South in places like London and Kitchener. More than a few times they would order a poutine and the restaurant employee would "correct" them and say "oh you mean a poo-teeen." They would then start speaking French to show who was correct.

I absolutely fucking hate it when people correct my pronunciation when I am the one saying it right.

For the record, it's not uncommon in Ottawa-Eastern Ontario to hear Franco-Ontarians say "poo-teen" when speaking in English, and "poo-t(s)in" when speaking in French.

HomeInMyShoes · #**12144** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:21 PM**

This Internet needs SOUND!

I wsa going to show my son the word and get him to pronounce it.

I'm guessing I am close, but not quite right on the first vowel sound.

MolsonExport · #**12145** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

Those busses do smell. The stench of overweight, sweaty tourists, that consume too much fast Food.

MolsonExport · #**12146** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:41 PM**

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"poo-t(s)in"

please tell me this is the correct way, as I have been saying it that way since my restaurant days in the mid 1980s in Quebec.

MolsonExport · #**12147** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I've only heard "sept-up" as a joke, and 95% of those times it was probably in reference to the Air Canada case.

the literal French transalation of "Sprite" is "Lutin"

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Acajack · #**12148** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 2:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

please tell me this is the correct way, as I have been saying it that way since my restaurant days in the mid 1980s in Quebec.

If you think that people in Quebec have the most "cred" in terms of the right way of saying it, then you're absolutely right.

O-tacular · #**12149** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

"Fart" in Danish means speed, so on the highway there are signs warning drivers that if they go too fast they can be caught on camera and ticketed.

These signs read "Fartkontrol".

There is also an app you can get for your phone that warns you of speed traps and the like; it is also called "Fartkontrol".

In a related note, these are also very common around Copenhagen's landmarks:

That's amazing!

Speaking of funny word correlations I recently found out from someone that if you say Umm in Turkey you are basically saying cunt.

Acajack · #**12150** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

That's amazing!

Speaking of funny word correlations I recently found out from someone that if you say Umm in Turkey you are basically saying cunt.

Makes sense.

Did I just say that?

MolsonExport · #**12151** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 7:20 PM**

MolsonExport · #**12152** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 7:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Makes sense.

Did I just say that?

perhaps they are confusing Umm and Yum?

Whoops...did I just say that?

Echoes · #**12153** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 8:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

F*** that Neanderthal.

Just finished roasting this joker in a group chat with friends over this tweet before seeing this here. He makes my blood boil.

Echoes · #**12154** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 8:13 PM**

A little Trost story to add here -- heard about a friend of a friend who passed him on the University Bridge in Saskatoon once. They were both on foot but on walkways on opposite sides of the traffic lanes. The guy yelled out over the din of passing traffic "TROST, YOU SUCK!" and apparently he went bananas with rage. Would've loved to be a passing vehicle at that moment. I can picture Trost spitting with anger.

Nathan · #**12155** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 9:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

The anglo POO-TEEN is not really the French from France way of saying it, even though it's a bit closer to it than the Quebec one is. You're correct for the rest though, even though in Quebec there is often an S or Z sound in the last syllable (tzin or tsin).

Ah yes, I missed putting that in there, but I did notice the slight s/z sound in that letter combination when I was taking some adult French classes a while back.

Acajack · #**12156** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 9:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

the literal French transalation of "Sprite" is "Lutin"

conceptspectacle

LOL. I did not know that.

Acajack · #**12157** Posted **Feb 1, 2018, 10:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nathan

Ah yes, I missed putting that in there, but I did notice the slight s/z sound in that letter combination when I was taking some adult French classes a while back.

Interestingly enough Acadians pronounce a straight T without the S or Z sound almost all the time. Quite different from Québécois and the francophones to the west in Ontario and beyond.

Acadians also always pronounce a straight D, again as opposed to francophones to the west of them who kind of say it "dz" when associated with certain letters like I and U.

mcminsen · #**12158** Posted **Feb 2, 2018, 6:53 AM**

The first two houses are near one another on the same street in Vancouver's West Side. I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. I think the ugly part in the second pic is the for sale sign implying the possibility of something being built like what's in the first pic.

I'm not really sure what to think of the house on the right in the third pic but it has a lot of critics. I thought the juxtaposition with it's little neighbour was interesting.

West Side, Vancouver, Jan.31/Feb.1 '18, my pics

O-tacular · #**12159** Posted **Feb 2, 2018, 4:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

The first two houses are near one another on the same street in Vancouver's West Side. I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. I think the ugly part in the second pic is the for sale sign implying the possibility of something being built like what's in the first pic.

I'm not really sure what to think of the house on the right in the third pic but it has a lot of critics. I thought the juxtaposition with it's little neighbour was interesting.

West Side, Vancouver, Jan.31/Feb.1 '18, my pics

Is that plywood in the turret windows?

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I actually like this.

Nothing will ever match the hideous splendour of Calgary's 70's chateau though. It's style is Transylvanian meets Roman meets Russian meets Dr. Seussian.

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Singl...Calgary-Alberta-T2T1L6-Upper-Mount-Royal

All of this could be yours for a cool $1.75 million!

SignalHillHiker · #**12160** Posted **Feb 2, 2018, 4:40 PM**

I'm going through a selection of photographs of every iteration of every church in the St. John's region.

It's heartbreaking. All of the big ones are just as they were, and some of those that burned down and were replaced were horizontal upgrades - you lost a gorgeous Gothic wooden one and gained a beautiful stone Byzantine one, etc.

But the VAST majority were ornate wooden buildings that were replaced with 1960s-70s-style bay retail outlet exteriors.

A typical example - the little town of Flatrock, just north of the city. This is what the school and church look like today:

And this is what was there before:

It's the same with the houses. Typical North American bungalows now dominate every part of rural Newfoundland that is not a protected or popular tourist site.

Such a sad loss of beauty. Flatrock is ugly today, there's almost nothing there worth taking a picture of except the landscape - but just 50 years ago, I could've gone there and been as fulfilled and excited as my road trips to Brigus and Bonavista and Trinity and the touristy spots. Truly is a tragedy we allowed the "new and improved" to replace what we were.