ATAG_Headshot Posted January 23, 2019 Posted January 23, 2019 In Alberta you have about a 20% chance of any kind of weather and a 2% chance of hell freezing over and us not noticing because we just assumed it way another day ending in "Y"
Fafnir_6 Posted January 23, 2019 Posted January 23, 2019 Hey Headshot! I live in Edmonton, AB too... We should hang out sometime :D. Cheers, Fafnir_6 1
SShrike Posted January 23, 2019 Posted January 23, 2019 17 hours ago, Fafnir_6 said: Hey Headshot! I live in Edmonton, AB too... We should hang out sometime :D. Cheers, Fafnir_6 There are a few of us in the capital region. We should make a plan and meet up at the air museum sometime. 1
ATAG_Headshot Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 20 hours ago, Fafnir_6 said: Hey Headshot! I live in Edmonton, AB too... We should hang out sometime :D. Cheers, Fafnir_6 That would be great!
SShrike Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 10 hours ago, EAF19_Marsh said: What is this all aboot? Nobody here says that...
Beazil Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 12 hours ago, EAF19_Marsh said: What is this all aboot? Don't ever do that again.
ShamrockOneFive Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 14 hours ago, EAF19_Marsh said: What is this all aboot? So interestingly... We don't actually say aboot, however, our American cousins seem to almost universally agree that we do. Quote “What’s going on is a compound of pronunciation and perception,” says Dailey-O’Cain. “The Canadians do pronounce it differently. Americans hear this and they know it’s different—they’re hearing a difference but they don’t know exactly what that difference is.” Americans do not have the Canadian diphthong present in the word “about,” which makes it hard to understand. We know that the Canadians are doing something weird, but in fact it’s so unlike our own dialect that we can’t even really figure out what’s weird about it. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whats-going-on-with-the-way-canadians-say-about Apologies for linguistically geeking out
SShrike Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 2 hours ago, ShamrockOneFive said: So interestingly... We don't actually say aboot, however, our American cousins seem to almost universally agree that we do. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whats-going-on-with-the-way-canadians-say-about Apologies for linguistically geeking out What he said.
MiloMorai Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 16 hours ago, EAF19_Marsh said: What is this all aboot? It is 'out and about' not 'out and aboot'.
=420=Syphen Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 6 hours ago, ShamrockOneFive said: So interestingly... We don't actually say aboot, however, our American cousins seem to almost universally agree that we do. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whats-going-on-with-the-way-canadians-say-about Apologies for linguistically geeking out Good old Canadian vowel shift and mergers. Mind you, people in Ontario mostly all speak with the same accent as Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Parts of Michigan and New York.. "Inland Northern American English"
ShamrockOneFive Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 1 hour ago, [CPT]HawkeyeP said: Good old Canadian vowel shift and mergers. Mind you, people in Ontario mostly all speak with the same accent as Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Parts of Michigan and New York.. "Inland Northern American English" Mostly. Soon as I cross the border into NY or Michigan I immediately notice their accent on words like dollar. From my understanding Ontario linguistically has more in common with California these days. Which is weird
ATAG_Headshot Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 9 hours ago, MiloMorai said: It is 'out and about' not 'out and aboot'. Oot and aboot 1
CanadaOne Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 5 hours ago, [CPT]HawkeyeP said: Good old Canadian vowel shift and mergers. Mind you, people in Ontario mostly all speak with the same accent as Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Parts of Michigan and New York.. "Inland Northern American English" We do "joile" here, and often switch back and forth between English and French in the same sentence. Good fun.
MiloMorai Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 On 1/25/2019 at 11:09 AM, CanadaOne said: We do "joile" here, and often switch back and forth between English and French in the same sentence. Good fun. The language gestapo will be after you if you do that too often.
CanadaOne Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 30 minutes ago, MiloMorai said: The language gestapo will be after you if you do that too often. I can handle those turds. I can shout and argue and swear in French like a Boss! 1
pencon Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 (edited) Yes I'm from Abbotsford British Columbia, home of the Abbotsford International Airshow. We used to have your fighter jets come visit way back in the 80's and 90's. Or was it the Ukraine jets? I can't remember . Edited February 7, 2019 by pencon
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