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[–] 9 points 6 days ago* (3 children)

Joyeux festin, not "happy meal".
Stationnement, not "parking".
Course à pied, not "du footing".
Magasinage, not "shopping".
Téléphone intelligent, not "smartphone".

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    And yet Quebecois will stop you in the street and say "t'as une smoke ?"

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    Téléphone intelligent, not "smartphone".

    Ordiphone, actually but it comes from one of the most shittiest french administration

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8360216/telephone-intelligent
    Looks like ordiphone is accepted, but I honestly never heard that. Everybody simply calls that a "téléphone" in Québec, and advertisements usually use "téléphone intelligent".

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I guess. I learnt it in a project subject during college, frow a teacher insisting that it's a bibliothèque and not a librairie for a .so

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