Hello from Quebec City!!

[Irisbleu]

Hi everyone! :) Nice to meet you all!It's here we have to introduce ourselves so here I go! :wink:
I'm Irisbleu from Québec City (originally from the small city of Rimouski in the Bas Saint-Laurent region, near Gaspésie, QC) and yes, I've recently discovered Alpha Flight!
I've been a huge x-men fan for many years now, I'm also a big manga/anime fan (some people tell me that you can't like comics and manga at the same time, but that not true). I also like European cartoons.

It was pretty cool for me to see that there were 2 characters from Quebec in Alpha (well, I'm saying there are two, but are there more? ).

By the way, are there more people from the province of Qubec on this forum?

I'm sorry for my bad English oops: , having an Irish boyfriend for years didn't help me much since he only wanted to speak French to me! I'm trying very hard to pratice 'cause I'm doing a Master degree and I need to publish articles in English. And I'd like to finish my master in Calgary or Toronto, so....

Anyway, nice to see ya!! :D

[-K-M-]

Bonjour, and don't worry about your English. I speak English as my first language and I'm terrible at it :P

Welcome to the board, hope you enjoy your stay.

[Ben]

Irisbleu meet Sylvie, Sylvie meet Irisbleu.

Welcome to the forum, make yerself at home in the cupboard.

Ben

[Mokole]

Welcome, Irisbleu! Glad to meet you, such as it is!

[Irisbleu]

Thanks to you all! My, people are friendly here, that's great! :D
I've been on some annoying Marvel forums lately....

Thank you for baring my awful English!! :oops:

[Obsidian3d]

Your English looks fine to me so far. Welcome aboard. :)

[syvalois]

Bienvenue Irisbleu, nice to know I'm not the only person from Québec now. Don't worry about your english, they are suffering mine for years and they don't complaint. Disons que c'est une bonne place pour pratiquer ton anglais, parce que sans ce forum je ne pratiquerais vraiment pas mon anglais écrit.

As for only having 2 quebecers in AF, there seems to be also Murmur from volume 2 but well, she's a real bimbo, full stereotype, wouach. You know speaking very bad english : like zee iz wat she sound like. Even if she was raised in Ontario and her father seems to be François Truffaut, you know the french director. So, you did not missed much.

[Legerd]

Hey Irisbleu, welcome to Alpha Waves! Don't worry about your english, and the folks here are normally always friendly. :D

[Irisbleu]

Thank you, thank you! :D

Nows, I zust vonder vhy they make French people talk like zat, lol!!! That sounds like Inspector Clouseau to me (you know, the Pink Panther!)

I saw in the member list that there is somebody from Granby too (Qc)

[SmurfInABlender]

it is simply to show that they have an accent, same reason that cut off letters of words that Mr. Jefferies says because he's got a hick type accent...might not be PC but it is to help make characters

[syvalois]

Thank you, thank you! :D
I saw in the member list that there is somebody from Granby too (Qc)

Yeah, but he never post anything.


it is simply to show that they have an accent, same reason that cut off letters of words that Mr. Jefferies says because he's got a hick type accent...might not be PC but it is to help make characters

ok, then imagine your texas accent been written as if you where an englishman... Well, that's how close quebecer accents are to Inspecteur Clouseau accent, it's all wrong. I don't mind accent, but at least get it a little bit right. Gambit accent sound a lot closer to my accent than what been given to Aurora and sometimes Northstar and I'm not talking about Murmur

:evil:

[Irisbleu]

Yeah, I guess Gambit cajun accent is closer to Quebec accent than the Inspecteur Clouseau akzent they gave to Northstar and Aurora.... But still, people from Quebec don't talk like people from Louisianna either... I guess it's hard to immitate....

[syvalois]

I agree Irisbleu that a cajun and a quebecer don't have the same accent, but I know many complaint Gambit accent was not right for a cajun, maybe Tom would know better since he's in the cajun country. All I'm saying is that the written accent given to Gambit is closer to a quebecer accent than what as been given to Aurora and Northstar. That would be fun to compare, like how to make the difference between a french, quebec, cajun or acadian accent.

And I'm wondering if you and I are making the same mistakes when we write in english.

[Transmetropolitan]

Funny thing, I rememeber some comic callign Gambit "Acadian" once.

So maybe the writers just don;t realize the difference? 8)

[Irisbleu]

Humm..... Cajun people in Louisianna have the same ancestores as the Acadians... But they became different over the centuries, I guess... I hope I'm not wrong....

Yes Syvalois, I think we might make the same kinds of mistakes, lol! :wink:
One mistake I used to make in English (and I think I still make it sometimes) is using the article "the" too often, I mean, when it's not required.... Because in French, you always have to put an article in front of a noun.... That's a mistake lots of francophones do. And there is the fact we use too many "that" ("que" or "qui" in French).....

[SmurfInABlender]

it is simply to show that they have an accent, same reason that cut off letters of words that Mr. Jefferies says because he's got a hick type accent...might not be PC but it is to help make characters

ok, then imagine your texas accent been written as if you where an englishman... Well, that's how close quebecer accents are to Inspecteur Clouseau accent, it's all wrong. I don't mind accent, but at least get it a little bit right. Gambit accent sound a lot closer to my accent than what been given to Aurora and sometimes Northstar and I'm not talking about Murmur

:evil:

Touche

[birdygirl]

Welcome, Irisbleu! :D What a lovely screen name! Hope you'll be happy here! (Incidentally, I'm part French-Canadian myself, but only by ancestry -- my maternal grandfather was French-Canadian.)

[Irisbleu]

Thank you for the comment about the screen name, this is kind! :D

Do you know what's your grand mother family name? I met many people in the States who have French Canadian ancestores. Lots of French Canadians immigrated to the States at the beginning of the 20th century, I think.

[birdygirl]

My mother's maiden name was Fournier. Her father's family came down from Quebec to settle in Minnesota. before moving east to New York.

[Irisbleu]

Ah, Fournier, very common name here! That was a big family. Here, if you're interested, they have a web site in French and English for the Fournier living in North America: http://www.genealogie.org/famille/fournier/fournierhome.htm

[birdygirl]

Thanks! :D This is fascinating, and my mother will be especially interested. Thank you for thinking of us.

[Irisbleu]

You're welcome! You know, I had a great grand father whose name was Fournier, so maybe we're related just a little bit :wink:

[birdygirl]

That could be true! I told my mother today about the Fournier family website, (they don't have a computer), and she told me that the Fourniers used to have large families, (sixteen or eighteen children). So, yes, it's entirely possible! :wink:

[Irisbleu]

That would be neat! :wink: It's good that your mother saw it!
You know, all French Canadian families used to be very big (mostly because of the Catholic religion telling that they must have lots of children). My father had 20 brothers and sisters, my mother had 16. But now, French Canadians don't have that many kids...

[Obsidian3d]

Who can bloody afford to have lots of kids these days? I can barely afford to take care of myself!