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28 Mar 2021, 1:53 pm

Most Americans would assume lumber jacks dine on poutine.We’ve never heard of anything else food wise.I’ve never seen a “How to cook Canadian” tv show.

What do Canadians eat anyway?Moose and wild fish?Foraged berries?Tourists?Ice and snow?

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28 Mar 2021, 2:02 pm

According to Turd Coyles Soviet Canuckistan is all commies so they probably just eat the rich. :nerdy:

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28 Mar 2021, 7:45 pm

To me the most universally recognized Canadian stereotype would be of a tourist traveling around Europe with a big Canadian flag sewn on his backpack.

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29 Mar 2021, 5:12 pm

"eh"

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29 Mar 2021, 6:50 pm

MaxE wrote:

To me the most universally recognized Canadian stereotype would be of a tourist traveling around Europe with a big Canadian flag sewn on his backpack.

I thought that was how you spot American tourists.

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29 Mar 2021, 7:01 pm

Canadians are at least superficially friendly.....they don't get too pissed off if you don't know where you're going on a main road----except in the Toronto area, where the drivers are just as impatient as NYC drivers.

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29 Mar 2021, 8:16 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:

"eh"

I've never heard a Canadian say "eh".

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29 Mar 2021, 8:33 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

"eh"

I've never heard a Canadian say "eh".

I definitely say it. It's typically a verbal question mark. Canadian accents sometimes rise at the end of statements so a verbal question mark is right handy for eliminating ambiguity.

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29 Mar 2021, 8:50 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

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"eh"

I've never heard a Canadian say "eh".

My mother's cousin from Montreal said this constantly. If I had a recording of her talking you'd probably think it was a parody of a Canadian talking. Now this lady was born in 1896, she was 17 years older than my mother but was her first cousin. Maybe you never had much exposure to her generation. I think she was mostly raised in Halifax if that makes a difference.

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29 Mar 2021, 8:53 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

MaxE wrote:

To me the most universally recognized Canadian stereotype would be of a tourist traveling around Europe with a big Canadian flag sewn on his backpack.

I thought that was how you spot American tourists.

Might as well stay the f**k home.

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29 Mar 2021, 10:16 pm

“eh” has a slight “y” sound within the Canadian accent. And it’s a bit extended.

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29 Mar 2021, 10:43 pm

that the average canadian seems better edumacated, overall, than the typical amuuuurican.

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30 Mar 2021, 5:17 am

MaxE wrote:

IsabellaLinton wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

"eh"

I've never heard a Canadian say "eh".

This reminds me of my mother's uncle who grew up in NYC. He used to say things like New Joysey and Port Joyvis (Port Jervis). My mother said she thought he talked like that because his wife did. She was from Bay Ridge, the predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood in Brooklyn where the character Peggy Olson in Mad Men was supposed to be from. My point being that nobody in NYC talks like that today. Speaking of my mother's Canadian cousin, her granddaughter recently told me that her father tested positive for both gonorrhea and syphilis.

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30 Mar 2021, 5:38 am

I have the Everybody Loves Raymond accent. He grew up about 5 blocks from me in Queens.

To me, the Canadian “about” sounds somewhere between “a boat” and “a boot,” depending upon the person speaking.

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30 Mar 2021, 4:46 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

"eh"

I've never heard a Canadian say "eh".

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30 Mar 2021, 4:49 pm

It's sort of like "hey" without the extended "y" sound.

Rather like pronouncing the letter "a."

It's certainly not "ehhh."

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