Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by jefft255 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:49AM
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Indeed let's hope it was basically a mistake; right now I have a few French (from France) friends doing phds at the same university, and I'm pretty sure that they will have English chapters in their thesis (research paper insertion).
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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by 908B64B197 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:54PM
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The student in the article was warned years ago her thesis wouldn't waive her requirement to pass a standardized test.
All they have to do is add either a test or transcripts for 3 years of high school in French. Over time I've known many folks who obtained permanent residency through the exact same program (some of them after completing PhD almost exclusively in English). All they had to do was a test.
Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by jefft255 on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:16AM
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Thanks for the info I’ll make sure my friends are aware of this!
Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by friendlybus on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:54AM
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Do they comment on Québécois French? I hear it is closer to 19th century French than modern France.
Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
by umanwizard on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:22AM
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That's a bit of a myth. The dialects have been evolving separately since that time; you can't say either is closer to the branch point than the other.
The reason French people believe this is because yes, there is some old vocabulary like souliers retained in Quebec, but on the other hand there are also some features that they've lost over time that are retained in France, like using si instead of oui to contradict a negative.