Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 27, 2021

Toss me a beer you hoser.

The difference between jazz in the US and in Canada:

A popular jazz tune in the US is “Take the A train”

A popular jazz tune in Canada is “Take the train, eh”

Frazz is right. Canadian isn’t A language, it’s two languages.

Neither is American.

You can find the Canadian at the party by circulating stepping on people’s toes. When someone apologizes, that’s the Canadian.

Shouldn’t it be “on the snow by the water”?

I hope panel two was an oops. I would rather have houses on the snow by the water. Less sinking.

Much like Louisianan

Well Canada has 3 if you count ‘Hongcouver’ as part of Canada

Ha! She’s good!

I have to agree with Mr Mallett: Canada feels good, has superlative people, and is just all-around a nice place.

Plus, most Norwegians speak English well.

And they have the greatest beer in this part of the world .

Even their Miller High Life is better than ours .

More like a vernacular.

Well, beer-lovers in most other countries think US beer lacks a little something. Don’t drink beer so I don’t know. But it’s often said. Also espresso anywhere in Europe is definitely not the same as in US, so maybe there are more differences than we know of.

Check out St-John’s Newfoundland, (https://i.redd.it/tr7qwe0rqlx11.jpg) for colourful. The big monopoly looking houses at the top of the picture are called “The Rooms”. I was lucky enough to attend a meeting in that building in the top floor conference room. The view of the harbour is mind blowing. Please believe me when I say if you can only visit one place in Canada, make it Newfoundland. Take two weeks and rent a car… Canadians are friendly? Triple that for Newfies…

Having poutine for lunch?

Norwegian is easier to learn than French.

Sorry, eh? I’ll just go sit on the chesterfield and eat my Kraft Dinner.

Even Regional Dialects can be a problem. The first time my German Wife with a Masters in English Linguistics spoke with my Parents over the phone she couldn’t understand most of what they said because of their heavy accents. We dubbed it Southernese.

No grammer police, you two. We say in speech & print – “on the water” and “on the river”, etc. – sprinkled throughout the US. Enjoy the comic instead.

Interesting to see this from Michiganders (Frazz is set in Michigan). When I have traveled to the Southern U.S. I often have been asked if I am from Canada….. because to most “untrained” ears…. the Michigan accent and Canadian accent sound pretty damn similar. :)

I once drove across Adanac from east to west before somebody set me straight. It made way more sense in the opposite direction.

I love Maritime Canada! Cape Breton Island!

And the “French” spoken in Quebec is not the same as that spoken in Paris. Even before the United Kingdom took over after the Seven Years War (French and Indian), French spoken in old France had drifted apart from the French spoken in New France. My mom once commented that a French Language teacher in Maine found her job challenging teaching Parisian French to French Canadian immigrants to Maine.

It isn’t french either – not even Quebecquois is. Ask any Frenchman.

Canadian isn’t a language, and neither is Mexican, as illustrated by this anecdote:

Two brown-skinned people in a line at the Post Office were chatting with each other, but not in English. The guy in front of them got redder and redder, then finally turned and snapped “If you Mexicans want to speak Mexican, then go back to Mexico! This is America, and we speak English!”

After a brief moment of startlement, one of them replied (in perfect English) “The language of Mexico is not Mexican. It is Spanish, imported here from Europe — from Spain. But we weren’t speaking Spanish. We were speaking Navajo. You know, the original language from around these parts. So if you want to speak English, then go back to England.”

I thot “Frazz” was a contraction of “Frazier”, which seems to me to be more Scottish than Norwegian. Anyone know?

I don’t know – I found Norwegian a bit easier to learn than Quebequois …

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And they were toques instead of beanies! Oh! Canada!

I can still recall way back, when my future brother-in-law motorbiked up to Canada where we were vacationing. He commented on the Canadian rattlesnakes. Everyone looked at him with a “Huh?” expression, and he explained, “They go ‘Rattle-rattle-eh? Rattle-eh?’”