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   Renkon (renkotsuban@gamedev.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 07:12:22 JST Renkon

   Do Canadians really say "eh" all the time? Because I say "eh" all the time IRL, and so does everyone I know back home haha

   (Please don't yell at me Canadians I barely know anything about how US mainlanders talk let alone non-USians)

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     Lina the Dragon Spooker (lina@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 07:12:20 JST Lina the Dragon Spooker

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     @renkotsuban Canadian here (born and raised in British Columbia, spent most of my life there, now living in Alberta. I say "Eh" all the time (most often if I haven't heard something/need clarification, "Eh?", but also things like the stereotypical "How's it goin', eh?", or in answer to that question ("Eh, you know how it is.")

     As you're probably seeing from other comments, even in Canada there's debate about (which I don't pronounce as "aboot" :P) who actually uses it, but I'll say that I know people from all over the country who use it, from various walks of life, with little or no background in common. It's just one of things things.

     I'm not even sure I know how/when I started saying it, and likely it was by being exposed to Bob and Doug McKenzie a lot as a kid, but also just media in general.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:41:56 JST aeva

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     @TomF @mcc @Farbs @renkotsuban the french aren't real and they can't hurt me

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     Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:41:57 JST Tom Forsyth

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     @aeva @mcc @Farbs @renkotsuban You have perfectly described the French.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:41:59 JST aeva

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     @TomF @mcc @Farbs @renkotsuban Tom languages are fluid things that evolve and change over time. Deviation is only wrong if 1) the person you're talking to thinks it is wrong and 2) they're willing and able to make it a you problem.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:00 JST mcc

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     @Farbs @aeva @renkotsuban as a person who has spent more time in her life interacting with people via text than via speech, I think if I needed to pronounce the word "decal", I would simply panic

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     Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:00 JST Tom Forsyth

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     @mcc @Farbs @aeva @renkotsuban It's originally from French, so "dee-kal" is certainly wrong. On the other hand, the French uses a é (e-acute), so the correct pronunciation should be more like "day-kal" than "deh-kal".

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     Farbs (farbs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:01 JST Farbs

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     @aeva @mcc @renkotsuban I'm pretty sure I've heard both in Australian studios.

     My favourite wonky gamedev pronunciation is present, meaning show or gift depending on how you say it. An artist I worked with seemed to think a thread was waiting quite a long time for someone to give it a little treat (WaitForPresent).

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:02 JST mcc

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     @renkotsuban Conclusions based on living in Canada for seven years:

     - It's characteristic of *one* specific canadian sub-accent. One specific area of canada. If someone in canada says "eh" you immediately know they have roots in that area.

     - The "aboot" thing is real but it does not sound like "boot". There is a phoneme that Canadians have but Americans do not. You hear it in "out" and "about".

     - A surprisingly large number of Canadians pronounce JavaScript "Jaavascript". I can't explain this

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:02 JST aeva

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     @mcc @renkotsuban some Canadians I work with pronounce decal like "deckle" instead of the "dee-cal" I'm familiar with and I've yet to determine if that's a quirk of their studio or if it's a regional thing or what.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:08 JST mcc

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     @Farbs @aeva @renkotsuban The good news is after George W. Bush did that "nucular" thing I can explain away any weird pronunciations by just saying "Yeah, sorry, I'm from Texas"

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 14:42:08 JST clacke

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     @aeva @mcc @renkotsuban Oh! I would say /duh-CAL/. Not sure I've ever heard it spoken.

     The Swedish cognate "dekal" is /deh-KARL/.