[f430]

They teach us Quebecois accent which is sort of like the Texan/Southern dialect. It's associated with negative stereotypes.

On one call I recall a team from Paris snickering as my Quebecois co-worker spoke who was confused and embarrassed.

Heureusement, mon professeur était parisien.

[kergonath]

Québécois is lovely, though! It’s just funny sometimes and they have interesting phrases. Granted, it’s probably not the best if you learn French as a foreign language, but still. I love speaking with French Canadians.

[yborg]

The swearing is the best part.

[soperj]

That's it in a nutshell though, would in the US/Canada actually snicker because someone was talking with a Texan accent? It's a bit ridiculous.

[asveikau]

Yeah, kinda. The stereotype [yes they are stereotypes, not trying to offend anybody] of a southern accent in the northeastern US is that the speaker is slow, unintelligent, backward, or most charitably, "folksy".

I'm not from the south so I'm not as sure what the stereotype is in the opposite direction -- about the "yankees". Probably that they are inept and arrogant? Any time I've heard American southerners talk about "yankees" that's pretty much the tone

Out on the west coast I never hear about these dynamics anymore. People don't care about north/south here. Though curiously to me, I have encountered many westerners who sound more southern than northern to my ear.

[kergonath]

People in England do that all the time.