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Originally Posted by Capsicum

Surely, "no more French than Louisiana" must be quite the understatement for someone who actually speaks French fluently and desires to converse in it given how little power French has in most parts of Louisiana and given that you can travel around it and not even encounter French spoken to you at all as a tourist unless you go out and seek it in far-flung places, and how (relatively) strong French is in Quebec in that if you were a monolingual English speaker, you still couldn't avoid it even if you tried.

Unless you were in an Anglo enclave in say Montreal, like being a McGill student or something, maybe you'd think Montreal was no more French than New Orleans, but even then, I'd imagine you'd notice that around you, there are people who are conversing with others in French on the street, all around you and in daily life in a way you would rarely see in Louisiana unless you went to a really small town and even then, the assumption would not be that you address strangers/tourists you don't know with "bonjour-hi"!

One would assume that French people who know little about Quebec have not spent much time wandering the streets of Montreal.