Pronunciation of Desjardins
They are totally pronouncing that name wrong. He's French, not Spanish. It is pronounced day-jar-dayn
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Hahaha! J'me disais la même chose!
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs
This bothered me as well. I'm Canadian and it drives me nuts when people mispronounce French!
shareI'm Canadian and I can't stand the French
shareAll of Canada + Louisiana should be French. *beep* Italian Napolean sold it the bastard...
There we were, minding our own business, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
Speaking for the 75% of Canadians that only speak English...no, Canada should be all French. Quebec is French and New Brunswick is bilingual.
shareDo you mean Canada should NOT be french?
It should, and Louisiana, the whole middle part of the USA, should be french. Again, Napoléon, the italian traitor, should not have had the right to sell it.
Youre not listening, Canada was founded by the french. Why should all America be english speaking? If canada has a french part, why only a part? It should be all of it.
It doesnt make sense. Greedy english and usa-ians....
There we were, minding our own business, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
Yes, I am absolutely saying that Canada should not be all French. I am not saying that I am against the French because I am not. Canada isn't like the US, it's not a melting pot. We have regions that are mostly French, mostly English, mostly Italian, mostly Japanese, etc.
Why force people to adopt a culture which isn't their own? There's room for everyone here in the great white north.
Why force people to adopt a culture which isn't their own?
We could say that about the British who invaded the French parts in the 18th and 19th century.
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Yes, but you can't make society "pay" now for what happened 200 years ago. Live and let live. We don't all have to be the same and all Canadians don't have to speak French...or English for that matter.
shareWell it was wrong for them to attack the French in the first place. They had the largest part of the cake...
http://www.mhschool.com/ss/ca/images/img_g5u4_quiz_colony_popu.jpg
It would be perfectly balanced to have a large french country and a large English one, side by side, in america.
There's already a spanish one, that's beautiful.
You know, different languages have different cultures and ways of thinking, it's very enriching to have variation, otherwise it's just stale, and people turn into bullies...like they actually have in North America....
Check out this guy, he explains how language SHAPES reality, it's REALLY interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQih-hg5QU
There we were, minding our own business, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
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I am. You are the one using vulgar language and posting hateful messages like a child having a tantrum. Hence, your posts keep getting removed. Unless you are interested in talking about the movie, please do not contact me further. I have no interest in feeding the trolls.
"Tard"...having someone in my family with a mental handicap, I find that term highly offensive.
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See, you cannot even make a post without resorting to inappropriate language and hateful words. Hence, everything you say get deleted. You're not a man. You're a child who throws a temper fit when you don't get your way. Sad, really.
If you feel the need to contact me, send me a message. I don't want to pollute this boards with crap. But, if you just want to tell me again that I should kill myself, don't bother.
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usa-ians....How did we get involved in your Canadian antics? You know we don't go around bashing Canadians all over IMDb but I see a lot of America Bashing. For such wonderful people you say a lot of negative things.
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Who said anything about canadian?
Oh what a day. What a lovely day!
Speaking for the 75% of Canadians that only speak English...no, Canada should be all French.
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It's the same in Belgium.
One half is French, the other half Flemish which is similar to Dutch.
"Gar nicht so übel, du kleine Schlampe. Man sieht sich immer zweimal, Kleine."
*beep* Italian Napolean sold it the bastard...I could research myself but how did an Italian get a hold of it to begin with and why are they French speaking?
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Why do you think he might be Italian? Think hard....
Analyse his life, his name, his story...
Oh what a day. What a lovely day!
Napoléon sure wasn't Italian!
But I have love in my heart - Yes, as a thief has riches, a usurer money
I'm Canadian and I can't stand the French either.
shareThen you're not actually Canadian.
shareThe mispronunciation of Desjardins also distracted me every time the surname was mentioned. I'm not a native French speaker, but I studied French for 6 years in secondary school (a little over a decade ago now).
On a related note: isn't it funny how Desjardins means "from the gardens" in French, when in the film, Henri Desjardins was buried in Deborah Logan's garden? I wonder if they did that on purpose, or whether this connection is purely coincidental.
In art, every little touch, coincidence, similarity, is on purpose.
There we were, minding our own business, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
I know this is so annoying. This is rather unusual though even for an american film. There's usually a better effort at pronouncing french names.... It took me quite some time to realized that the name was actually Desjardins! I kept hearing Disjirdini. Gosh, maybe they should have called hime Henri Pertaining-to-Gardens. So no one gets confused...
shareLol...as a Canadian I know we often mispronounce Spanish with hard J's a lot. The sheriff drove a nice yeep though.
shareRemember that the characters doing the speaking are american. It was set in north carolina. Pronunciations vary by region sometimes by a lot.
shareYes, pronunciations vary by region and the movie was set in Virginia. Having been to Virginia, I know that they do not pronounce J's as H's.
It was a flaw.
Actually, it's pronounced day-jar-den, not day-jar-dayn.
shareWhere I live in Canada its pronounced more like Day-zhar-den and you swallow the final 'n'
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