A few of your items have trouble making sense to me.
* Parisians may fit in (in some sense) but not "quite well". Have you ever seen how a Parisian is regarded when, for example, returning merchandise at Réno-Dépôt? It's near scorn, if not mockery. If they're not on TV, peoples from Île-de-France are usually the subject of casual suspicion. Except maybe in Outremont. Or at UQAM.
[Folks from other parts of France, notably the south, get different treatment. And Belgians are regarded as verbal oddities almost everywhere, but they have 'septant', 'octant' and 'nonant' - so they win.]
* Ontarians from the north (or sometimes the Francophone south) who happen to be of English extraction do have the most amazing Anglophone accents, but are often fairly fluent in French besides. By virtue of contact, not necessarily schooling. They may not speak le joual, but then N. Ontarian slang is pretty cool unto itself. Their accent is considered "sexy" by a few Quebecer’s accounts. I think it sounds charmingly clumsy
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Where does one put people who equate all European French accents with "Parisian," know nothing of local-demography, and are willing to post sweeping generalizations about a place they've obviously managed to completely misapprehend after several years... under the guise of advertising their belief in their superior knowledge? My guess is Plateau-dwelling McGill grad.
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* Parisians may fit in (in some sense) but not "quite well". Have you ever seen how a Parisian is regarded when, for example, returning merchandise at Réno-Dépôt? It's near scorn, if not mockery. If they're not on TV, peoples from Île-de-France are usually the subject of casual suspicion. Except maybe in Outremont. Or at UQAM.
[Folks from other parts of France, notably the south, get different treatment. And Belgians are regarded as verbal oddities almost everywhere, but they have 'septant', 'octant' and 'nonant' - so they win.]
* Ontarians from the north (or sometimes the Francophone south) who happen to be of English extraction do have the most amazing Anglophone accents, but are often fairly fluent in French besides. By virtue of contact, not necessarily schooling. They may not speak le joual, but then N. Ontarian slang is pretty cool unto itself. Their accent is considered "sexy" by a few Quebecer’s accounts. I think it sounds charmingly clumsy ( ... )
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I don't know, but I think she was making a joke.
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Liked your comprehensive guide of French in Mtl, tho i just dunno where i fit in your list, hehe
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