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virgil-upinthestars · 12 days ago

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so, my dad went to notre dame, the college in indiana (*cue fight song*). but we're also québécois, so in my family, we pronounce la notre-dame de paris the french way, and notre dame (the college) with the most brutal east coast american accent you can think of. it was how we differentiated between the two. now, i might be québécois by heritage, but i speak french like a kid from butt-fuck cow country france (périgord vert my beloved), so my pronunciation is downright beautiful. french as fuck. québécois people think i was born in france. accent so strong i sometimes get a throat infection if i haven't spoken the language in a while.

well, i think i almost killed my french professor today when i was yapping about the notre dame football game (rip). i was in full bilingual mode, so my sentence was "perfect french perfect french perfect french NODER DAYME" and let me tell you that 40 y/o parisian almost had a stroke

#we laughed about it after class i was like bro are you okay 😂#and then i immediately texted my family group chat #in case you were wondering - yes we talk about notre dame and la notre-dame so much that getting them confused is a problem 😂#i was so confused when i read the hunchback of notre dame as a kid #my dad bought an architectural model of la notre-dame for my brother and i to build when we were like eight #we freaking loved it that shit was so cool #i cried when la notre-dame burned a few years ago #and i cried again when i saw it in person for the first time #french #french language #french culture #french class #langue française #quebecois #québécois #notre dame #university of notre dame #fighting irish #virgil rants

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