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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/television@lemmy.world

First it starts with a comedy video which turns into this weird creepy thing about kids running through the Paris sewers, encountering an alligator, then getting rowed out and into the Seine by a ghost and it cuts to reality and all the nations are going down the river on boats past a bunch of water jets because they're not doing this in a stadium.

This looks awful and ridiculous. Compare this to the spectacle of London 2012.

Now they're doing some weird old Hollywood movie musical style musical number with Lady Gaga and she's on a staircase, which is... somewhere in Paris?

I am so fucking confused.

Edit: They just cut to Macron and he looks as confused as I am.

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[-] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Céline Marie Claudette Dion

Nah, sounds English to me.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

She's Canadian. Quebecois. Her parents too. She is descended from French ancestors, but she is not French. Of course, being from Quebec, she speaks French fluently. I'm not sure if people in France can tell she's Canadian from her accent or the words she uses or whatever. Canadian French is different in some ways from French spoken in France. Not enough to not be mutually understood- similar to the UK and the US.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

French with a Canadian partner here. Trust me with some deep-countryside type Quebec folks, we definitely can't understand anything they're saying. To be fair, the same could be said about folks in deep rural regions in France...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

True about parts of the UK too though. Especially Scotland.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, I go there regularly and same deal, I struggled even more in Ireland but I think that's because of my Scottish friends I've developed a bit of an ear for it.

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