Subject: Understanding Canadians

[Phoenyx]

It has come to my attention that some people are having a tough
time understanding Canadians like myself. So I am going to run througha very brief translation of the Canadian dialect and hopefullyease some minds out there.

EH= pronounced AY (similar but not the same as huh)

Eh is a useful word that is very important and is the basis of all Canadian communications.It is used in conjunction with other words, or simply by itself. The tone or the slight difference in exclamations also changes the meaning.

Eh= what did you say?
Eh?= what do you think
EH?= something to say just to end a sentence
Eh!!= WOW!!
EH!?= what do you mean?
Eh??= your joking!!!??
EH!!= Hello..you off in the distance!!!
Eh?= want a donut?
Eh!= sure!!
Eh!Eh!= coffee double cream too please!
Eh?= what you say when you realize you have no money to pay for it
Eh..cmon eh?= asking them to let you pay for it next time.
hey..eh!= want to go to the drive in movie??
Eh...uhuh= yes sure!
Eh..y'know= Ill pick you up at 8
Eh..cmon!!= well thats early..but ok
Eh..wanna?eh?= lets fool around
EHHHHHHH= sounds coming from the car
hey..um..er eh...= Im pregnant
EH?????????= how did that happen?
EHHehhEHHehhEHHH= sounds from the delivery room
EHHH ehh EHHH ehh= babys first cry
Ehh..whadya think eh?= marry me

other usefel terms:
hoser= a good friend..
take off!= you are kidding,no way,fly an airplane
skates= what all canadians wear as first shoes(thats why we walk funny)
lumberjack= something in our genes..
screech= a nice drink
swish= a drink made from leftover screech barrels
The Rock= Newfoundland
Newfoundland= pronounced noofunlan
Dory= Newfoundland cruise liner
Toronto= pronounced Trawna
Lake Ontario= where all sewers drain into
Yukon= a drink
Two Four= case of beer
sixty pounder= large bottle of screech
Over by= still havent deciphered that term yet


The Canadian citizenship test:

spell canada= C eh N eh D eh

who was the first Prime Minister=Sir John EH Macdonald

So if you hear me talking like this.
Hey..eh..cmon eh hoser!
y'know take off!!
EH??umm err well hey ok eh!

it's friendly!

 

[lilminx]

Hey Pheonyx

Eh..wanna?eh?

 

[Kymberley]

*crosses her fingers*

So just who on this board would you say those sweet nuthins to Phoenyx?

 

[Phoenyx]

Re: *crosses her fingers*

So just who on this board would you say those sweet nuthins to Phoenyx?

anyone willing to put up with me.

 

[Phoenyx]

Re: Hey Pheonyx

Eh..wanna?eh?

Eh...uhuh

 

[Gilly Bean]

hoser= a good friend..

In my home town, and in surrounding area's, hosers were pretty much losers, hoes, sluts, freaks, geeks, n such. Pretty much anyone who we didn't like. Now, granted, by that definition, me and many of my friends were hosers, too.

 

[Phoenyx]

Everyone is dislike by someone else. In our efforts to be different we all end up beeing the same

 

[lilminx]

Re: Re: Hey Pheonyx

Eh...uhuh

Lol-

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Re: Re: Subject: Understanding Canadians

In my home town, and in surrounding area's, hosers were pretty much losers, hoes, sluts, freaks, geeks, n such. Pretty much anyone who we didn't like. Now, granted, by that definition, me and many of my friends were hosers, too.

Yah well you can't get us Canadians down with regular insults
Call us lazy we will say Meh. Call us freaks we will thank you.

Tell us hocky is for loosers..... Oh your dead now

 

[sexy-girl]

nope doesnt help i still cant understand a word they say



that should be she says

 

[shyybabe]

Top 10 for Canada

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. Weed
2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges
3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snow boarder
4. The local wine doesn't taste like malt vinegar
5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is 5 hours from downtown
6. A university with a nude beach
7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer them some of your hash
9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on
10. Marmots

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big Rock
2. Gas is cheaper
3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 per cent
4. The Premier is a fat beer drinker with a grade 4 education
5. Flames vs. Oilers and Stamps vs. Eskies
6. Nobody thinks you're a nutbar if you wear a cowboy hat with your bathing suit.
7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of
8. Eventually, it will be your town's turn to ban VLT's
9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups
10. You can attempt to murder your rich oil tycoon husband and get away with it.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat
2. Those cool Saskatchewan Wheat Pool hats
3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning
4. Your province is really easy to draw
5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard
6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house
7. YOUR Roughriders survived
8. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours
9. People will assume you live on a farm
10. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property
2. Amusing town names like 'Flin Flon' and 'Winnipeg'
3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto
4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal
government
5. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes
6. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter
7. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work
8. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood
9. Because of your license plate, you are still 'friendly' even when
you cut someone off.
10. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the center of the"Canadian" universe
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Separatist
5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition
6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a cool city
7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime
8. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a dollar
9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house
10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Everybody assumes you're an asshole
2. Racism is socially acceptable
3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians
4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
5. Other provinces bribe you to stay in Canada
6. The FLQ The Block,a political party dedicated to separation but
still appreciated in Quebec !
7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys
8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers
9. NON-smokers are the outcasts
10. You can blame all your problems on the 'Anglo bastards'

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. You are sandwiched between French assholes and drunken Celtic fiddlers.
2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income
3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies
4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours
5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston.
6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick
7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you
8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse
9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen
10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war by a moron who set an amunitions ship on fire
2. Your province is shaped like male genitalia
3. Everyone is a fiddle player
4. If someone asks if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ass.
5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert
6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil .
7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money
8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a kilt.
9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music
10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered Canada's most beautiful city.

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island,you still got the big-ass bridge
2. You can walk across the province in an hour
3. You were probably once an extra on 'Road to Avonlea'
4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from
5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows
6. Tourists arrive, see the 'Anne of Green Gables' house, then promptly leave.
7. You can drive across the province in fifteen minutes
8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates
9. You don't share a border with the Americans, or with anyone for that matter.
10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. The poorest, drunkenest province in Confederation
2. If Quebec Separates, you don't care.
3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them believe to kiss a dead cod is good luck!
4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products.
5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse
6. You understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics
7. English is your second language.
8. You are lucky to have two hours work a day
9. If someone asks if you're from Nova Scotia, you are allowed to kick their ass.
10. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding day

 

[Phoenyx]

shy babe I love the list.

 

[shyybabe]

Tks. Perhaps only us Canucks can appreciate the humor in it though.

 

[Phoenyx]

Possibly but others can see it and possibly understand us a bit.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

Re: Top 10 for Canada

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Everybody assumes you're an asshole
2. Racism is socially acceptable
3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians
4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
5. Other provinces bribe you to stay in Canada
6. The FLQ The Block,a political party dedicated to separation but
still appreciated in Quebec !
7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys
8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers
9. NON-smokers are the outcasts
10. You can blame all your problems on the 'Anglo bastards'

C'est si familier! And what is wrong with all this?

 

[batter]

Tks. Perhaps only us Canucks can appreciate the humor in it though.

yeah eh?

great lists.

 

[naudiz]

I love it.

But wait! I understand Great Big Sea's lyrics!

At least the stuff that filters down this far south and west.

 

[Marxist]

An entire country north of Buffalo. Is it really worth it?