Is it true that French-Canadians spoke French before the Frenchmen ?
NOUS
Yea thats right and the roman empire originated in nova scotia
>>2069849
hip hipip hourrah pour l'acadie :DDDDD
>>2069849
Define "Frenchmen".
Someone living within the French state?
Or a culturally French person?
>>2069874
Someone living within the French state
>>2069879
well in that case you could say yes since many Frenchmen did not speak what we call today French
>>2069879
Then, yes, absolutely.
"French" as we understand it today is merely the dialect that was common in and around Paris. This dialect was only widely promulgated and others, particularly Occitan and Breton, suppressed in the 1800s.