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Originally Posted by lio45
With the media it's pretty normal. A few generations ago everything you heard was in the accent of your neck of the woods... not anywhere near the case anymore.
My cousins in Nice are sounding much more like Parisians than their grandfathers did. I think my grandpa who's now retired in the Eastern Townships still has more of a Provençal accent right now than them in spite of having lived here for exactly 60 years this summer...
I expect Ontario kids to tend to speak English more and more like the people on TV and the internet do. I am sure this slow phenomenon has been going on for a few decades already.
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About two hours ago, one of my kids' friends I was driving to a class (my turn to play taxi tonight) said ''ça, je ne supporte pas''. She's from an average middle-class Québécois family. Not really élitist or Parisian Poseur Québécois at all.
That's really not something average Québécois kids would have said 20 or 30 years ago. They would have said ''ça, j'suis pas capable"… which some still say of course. But the other, more Euro-French expression is not something you would have heard before.