As far as I can tell, Kentucky is pretty and people are very friendly. They keep talking to us even.

[la_rainette]

As far as I can tell, Kentucky is pretty and people are very friendly. They keep talking to us even though we understand maybe 10% of what they say. We mostly nod and look benevolently confused and vague in return.

Waiter: where are you from?
Me: Canada.
Waiter: but where exactly?
Me: Toronto.
Waiter: oh, well, you’re not too bad. Them Quebec people, I can’t understand a word they say.

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[tealin]

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... They do know that's another language, right?

[sporky_rat]

Eeeeh.....some Quebecian (apologies if that's not the right name) English is *very* difficult to understand. I run into it in New Orleans sometimes. I can get Cajun French and the creole Franglish, but Quebec? Um. No.

[tealin]

Fair enough ... my step-grandma from Quebec City was unintelligible even by my francophone family's standards, and I suppose it would be a difficult accent to wrap your ear around if you weren't exposed to it from early childhood.

[la_rainette]

I think they heard Husband's French accent (he is easy to understand but he does have a bit of a French accent) and assumed we were from Quebec... and he'd had problems understanding people with Quebec accents in the past. And I have to say he was not that understandable to me, either so maybe our respective accents are just incompatible? :D