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Lien permanent Réponse de Danielle Laliberte le 23 février 2009 à 14:51

Chez moi c'est toujours "ma tante" pis "mon oncle"

Lien permanent Réponse de lacaux le 17 mai 2009 à 1:45

Bonjour;

Ici en France nous avons adopté une coutume anglaise et nombreux sont ceux qui nomment leur tante Taty, car cela parait plus gentil que tante qui semblerait faire plus vieillot.
Pour moi une tante c'est une tante, et non une taty, et souvent on dit mononc, au lieu de mon oncle.
Pour information une tante en France c'est aussi un homme homo.

Bonne journée

Lien permanent Réponse de Brooke Plourde Dupuy le 26 mai 2009 à 22:22

Well, chez nous, it's ma tante, pronounced more like "matownt". For me, tatante would be 'your aunt', not what you'd call your own. The vowel in 'tante' is a simple vowel in "France French", pronounced like 'ah' but many francos and quebecois diphtongue the vowel, meaning they make it sound like two vowels instead of one ( "ah" and "oo", kinda, for you non-linguists!). Diphtongization is a common feature of Quebecois French and any franco french that is quebecois in origin. It is not characteristic of Acadian French, however.

if you want to know more about diphtongues, just ask! My Master's thesis was all about diphtongization, specifically in the French spoken in Waterville, Maine. But a lot of what we found applies to other areas, too. I also have an article on the topic that is soon to be published in a Canadian linguistic journal. I can post a reference when I have it.

We call our uncle something that sounds like "mo-know-k" which is really just the franco/quebecois pronounciation of 'mon oncle'.

I love French, I love linguistics, I love diphthongs, so don't hesitate to chat me up about it! :)

Brooke

Lien permanent Réponse de Joseph Theriault le 27 mai 2009 à 22:46

Since throwing this question up originally, I asked my aunts to refresh me on what I called them as a child. They told me they eschewed the "correct" matante (pronounced just as chez toi) for tatante, because they thought it was easier for a child to say.

Unfortunately, it just confused me and two became my "aunts" and one remained "tante" as a sort of honorific title for also being my godmother ... hmm that was a lot more personal history than I originally intended to say, "ah yes, it's actually the same chez nous aussi" :-)

Lien permanent Réponse de Paul J. Gutman le 28 mai 2009 à 10:12

Most people I grew up with pronounce the words "matante" and "mononcle" the same way you guys and I would normally pronounce them. Other than a few friends of the family who came from "la vieille France," this pronunciation was practically universal in our community. (I grew up largely in Quebec; my accent and word choice are proof of that.)

I should add that my accent and word choice never raised many eyebrows until I started hanging out with faculty who taught French as a "foreign" language. (Many of them were actually Anglophone.) When I pointed out that their English was not British, they weren't sure what to say.