So after chatting with my French roomie, I've learned a few more things.
Ever heard of how they said the worse swear words you can say in French are somehow related to religion? For example, a huge no-no bad word is "Christ". I can't say whether or not I knew this or not, but my roomie told me it was a Quebecois thing. A Canadian thing. One unique one is "tarbernac". So this is not the case in France.
Some more common ones in France come from the English equivalents, y'know, the usual English swears. Such as pute, merde
-putain is bad, so is pute (er.. "slut"), merde, zut
Another thing- we ended up talking about smoking, and I was ranting about how every.single.school.day I have at least one second-hand smoke experience (AAARGH) and I was coming up with reasons for why so many people smoke in Quebec- the Frrrench/European way of life, the view of pleasures, of fine wine and smoking, and she said, "Oh don't go to Paris, everyone smokes there". Conflict!! Because I do very muchly want to go to France. Oh well, maybe I'll go during winter season wearing a full ski/face mask. And promptly suffocate anyway. Which is the bigger evil: choking on cloth, or choking on deadly smoke chemicals?
So I shall conclude with that's why so many people smoke in Quebec.
Damn it all.
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