donderdag 24 mei 2012

MINORITY LANGUAGE IN THE NEWSPAPER : JOUAL

( "Jack Kerouac was raised speaking Joual until age 6")




Joual  is the name of a dialect (some call it 'slang',some call it 'sociolect'- alanguage spoken by a certain social class or group) of Canadian French in Quebec.

It's name is derived from how the Frech 'cheval' is pronounced. 

A nice English loanword in Joual : enfirouaper   ( = cheat, from: in fur wrap,sometimes the furtraders cheated by wrapping cardboard in their furbales)

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