Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5697 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 1 of 4 30 January 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged |
I never actually encountered an example of Chiac until a friend of mine sent me this link today. I found it so interesting I thought I'd share it here:
Un couch en queer burgendy
Here's the Wikipedia article on Chiac.
I notice this couch ad was placed in New Brunswick. Do most people from this area actually speak like this? I also find myself wondering if the English words they use have more of a French accent, or the French words have more of an English accent... or if there's a whole new accent they use, perhaps?
Also, what would a language like this be called? It doesn't quite seem to fit the definition of "pidgin" or "creole"... although I admit I'm completely out of my depth in this area.
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ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5036 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2 of 4 30 January 2012 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
Radio Radio sings/raps in the dialect, it's hiphop but it is a good exemple, remember that the French it is based of is also far away from standard French.
RadioRadio - Jacuzzi
Edited by ReQuest on 30 January 2012 at 10:21pm
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genom Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4736 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 3 of 4 01 February 2012 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
My god this looks strange. It looks like the written french variety of "Spanglish."
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5385 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 4 of 4 01 February 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
I love Jacuzzi!
I remember watching a documentary about Chiac. One surprising thing is that, although it looks like a mixture
of French and English, many speakers aren't comfortable in either language.
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