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Originally posted by iREZ: Screw that, I went to Quebec last Nov. visiting my cuz, and while at a golf course I got harrased by the starter for speaking english, my cuz took care of it and told me to forget about it. Then after finishing the front 9 I went in to grab a snickers or hot dog and the lady behind the counter started yelling at me, my cuz saw this and started screaming back at her. Then in broken english the lady looks at me and says "in my country, we speak French and only French", I put that behind me again. Then on the way home my cuz wanted to grab some chicken to eat so we went to KFC or should I say PFK (poullet frit kentuck or something like that if I recall correctly), and after his order I told him to order me something and he insisted I order it, so I did and again I get heckled for speaking english. From now on I'll stick to asking nice people to order stuff for me. |
I find this a bit strange. In Paris nobody hassled me at all...I'd try and say what I was saying in my broken and terrible French (took Spanish in school) and then they'd chuckle and speak to me in English-everyone was very polite about it.
What's up with that, Quebec? Nationalism (or in this case, regionalism) gone awry is a bad thing...just ask the Americans.