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Newfy "English" is the Quebecois of English dialects. It's barely understandable by the rest of the country. An Englishman and an american/Canadian will be able to understand one another mostly with no problem. There will be the odd slang word that trips 'em up but, overall, the message comes across. Newfy is hard to understand what most words are, the accent is thick.
Similar to a Scottish or Welsh accent, I should think, to north Americans.
whatever the F, brad pitt was talking in the proper fucked movie.
Pikey
Lol yep, newfies are borderline unparseable sometimes. The character Hitch from Shoresy will give you a relatively mild taste of the accent, and sometimes it sounds like heโs speaking gibberish.
This scene is similarly hilarious, but for a different accent.
Hot fuzz is a fantastic movie lol
That makes sense!
OP what does the question mean?
Your post just asks what the Quebecois is, but you forget to say what it means to 'be a Quebecois'
I understand the question.
French people think that the Canadian French dialect spoken in Quebec sounds different, because it does, but you can still understand. They're still mutually intelligible just with some different words and accents.
OP is asking what the English variations there are throughout the world.
I am curious if Jamaican Patois would count as a different language entirely, just with some recognizable English words.
Wa go on? --> hello. (Etymology:ย What's going on?)
Oh good! ๐ฎโ๐จ
Then why did she ask about Norwegian? Why did she say "of your language" rather than English? Why did she answer my question by saying she means dialects from the Americas?
There's no academic/formal definition of what counts as a different language rather than a variant. Then it gets politically contested: peoples who want to assert their separatedness claim their language is totally different (e.g. Ulster Scots). That's one reason if you ask "How many languages are there in the world?", linguists tell ya "Between 4000 and 8000"
OP asked about "your language in the title, and in the body asks about English, which is my language. So to me she's asking about English, but to you she's asking about whatever else you speak.
Maybe you are missing the context that there was another popular post on the threadiverse recently about an American dialect of norgweigian in the American Midwest.
I'm assuming from the context, maybe a region spoken of your language in the Americas?