# Can I Get a (Canadian) French Translation, Please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 7, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068 "2015-04-07T19:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/1 "2015-04-07T19:56:30Z")
What is being said in this video? It’s only about 45 seconds long, so I’m not asking much, I don’t think. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhsTuoojJEk) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/2 "2015-04-07T20:26:52Z")
I’m curious too. Just in case some context helps: [http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/quebec-man-charged-in-chainsaw-road-rage-incident-1.2315514](http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/quebec-man-charged-in-chainsaw-road-rage-incident-1.2315514) ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/3 "2015-04-07T20:37:10Z")
For those who don’t click on videos: this seems to be a road rage incident, filmed from inside a car. Does not sound scripted. Guy outside : “You like this, huh?” (Revs the chainsaw a few inches from car window) (Child in car screams “Mommy!”) (Guy outside swears in various ways, some of which are the equivalent of “scram”.) Lady inside, screaming in a defiant tone: “We’ve called the police! You’re gonna get arrested! Come on, with your big chainsaw!” (Guy walks away. Lady scoffs.) (The video then repeats.) ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/4 "2015-04-07T22:57:47Z")
And in today’s lesson we learn that the Québécois word for chainsaw is chainsaw! ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/5 "2015-04-07T23:59:09Z")
Levels: _tronçonneuse_ is correct French, _scie à chaîne_ is a few notches down, _chainsaw_ is the very bottom of the barrel. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/6 "2015-04-08T01:37:49Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > Levels: _tronçonneuse_ is correct French, _scie à chaîne_ is a few notches down, _chainsaw_ is the very bottom of the barrel. 🙂 and “ta sti d’chainsaw kriss” is contained in a second barrel placed underneath the first. I’m rather surprised that wasn’t the version we got in that video. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/7 "2015-04-08T17:03:59Z")
You guys who understood her - are you Quebecois speakers, or French speakers, or both? And if you’re a French speaker, was she difficult to understand? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/8 "2015-04-08T17:09:29Z")
She was a little difficult to understand for this Queb speaker. She has what might be called a very working class way of speaking. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/9 "2015-04-08T17:49:42Z")
Well, I’ve heard worse. But I think the lady was being careful of the presence of her kids… Also: Everybody here can understand French-from-France, a bit like anybody in the U.S. can understand a BBC news anchor. The reverse, of course, is not necessarily true. ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-canadian-french-translation-please/717068/10 "2015-04-08T19:33:40Z")
My opinion is that a French (from France) would have had a hard time making sense of what was said by either party. On a side note, the local noon news broadcast mentioned that the chainsaw guy was arrested.