Overheard At McGill » french

Je ‘excuse, ais tu es alade dans la tete.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:57:55 +0000

Girl 1: Shit, I don’t know what to order! The whole menu is in French!

Girl 2: Uh, no. Duh, it’s in Spanish. French doesn’t use the letter “m.”

-St. Laurent

Quoi?

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:00:37 +0000

Girl: It’s really hard being anglophone…

-Lower Field

That’s like when I didn’t shower for a month so I wouldn’t get laughed at in Paris

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:01:31 +0000

A guy sits down with a girl, takes out a cigarette and starts trying to light it. He has some extreme difficulty getting it lit, and has obviously never smoked before.

Girl (laughing): Hey, do you want some help with that?
Guy: No, no, I’ve got to practice smoking. Let me do it.
Girl: Seriously? You’re practicing how to smoke?
Guy: Yeah! It’s on my list of things to do. See? (takes out agenda) “Laundry, conference sign-up, smoke.”
Girl looks stunned.
Guy: I don’t want to look like an idiot when I go to Amsterdam!

-in front of Macdonald Harrington building

Ils n’ont pas de sous-titres pour leurs guerres de gangs pour t’embÃªter.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:43:03 +0000

Girl 1: There isn’t much gang violence in Montreal, or at least you don’t hear about it.
Girl 2: That’s only because it’s all in French.
- RVC dorm

This Condition Is Called Hyperactive Separatist Syndrome

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:27:24 +0000

Prof: If you show patients with right parietal cortex damage a map of Canada and ask them to point to Quebec, they will point to the middle of the Atlantic…which is where Quebec should really be.
- ANAT321 Circuitry of the Brain

Same thing.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:13:40 +0000

Girl: Oh God, I thought that girl had a speech impediment, but she’s actually just speaking French…
- Milton Gates

English exists so the Quebecois can communicate with the rest of the French-speaking world.

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:37:01 +0000

Quebecois Boy walks up to French Girl and tries to impress her.
Quebecois Boy: *says something in French*
French Girl: I can’t understand a word you’re saying with that accent.

—New Rez caf

Yeah, it’s extra credit.

Alex — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:42:29 +0000

Girl: Wait, you take french?
Guy: Yeah
Girl: But you have a french last name.
- Molson

The expensive book is bilingual / le livre cher est bilingue

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:40:15 +0000

Girl #1: Â So do we have to buy the expensive book, or can we just get the cheap
one?
TA: Â Well, if you think you’ll be continuing in genetics you should get the
expensive one. Â But if you’re just tourists, you can get away with the cheap
one.
Girl #2: Â We’re not tourists. Â We’re FROM Montreal!”

– Bio 370 Tutorial

“Why do they call you ‘Cretin’?” “They say it means creative!”

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:18:38 +0000

(the crowd is chanting OlÃ© OlÃ© OlÃ©Ã©Ã©)

Young child: Daddy, what are they singing?
Anglophone father: Oh, don’t worry; it’s probably a French thing

—at the Bell Centre

The French are Affirmative Action-hire Nazis?

Alex — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:33:00 +0000

Professor: The Quiet Revolution was like a giant affirmative action program for French people.
Class: Stunned silence

—POLI 326 (Provincial Politics)

Nazi Metaphors: One Size Fits All

Alex — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:09:00 +0000

Prof: When you actually think about it, French-Canadian Nationalism is a whole lot like National Socialism.
Shocked Class: …..
(N.B. National Socialism was the name of the Nazi Party)

—Canadian Nationalism Class

also, can our footnotes be in Acadian?

Alex — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:00:00 +0000

Prententious Student: Can we write the exam half in English, and half in French?
TA:…Why would you want to do that?

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Alex — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:05:00 +0000

[Preppy girl walking up to a hipster guy]
Girl: Ou est le Plateau? The Plateau? Where is it?

–Corner of Parc and Mont Royal