Additional context:
Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I’m in Europe, I’ve noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away…
In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just… understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it’s pretty incredible
Don’t french Parisians pride themselves on “purity” or whatever?
When it comes to language yeah they have a reputation
Ironically, due to the history of the region, québécois is closer to old French than what they speak in France today,.
I believe that’s true of American vs. British in many ways as well