Languages of Belgium

[Drusilla]

Who tells you that Francophones all speak perfect standard language?

[Dandelion]

Who tells you that Francophones all speak perfect standard language?

Some people told me, but Dutch speakers mainly. They believe French to be one of the most standardised languages in daily speech. I bet they have never heard Russian, which is far more standardised (except for among sociolect perhaps).

But most French people understand one another in the way they speak without having to adapt their register, but they are wise to do and not speak verlan in formal occasions, or at all arguably lol. Next to sociolectical differences, dialectical differences aren't that big in French as in Dutch and German perhaps but they exist regardless (called 'accents' rather).

[Drusilla]

Some people told me, but Dutch speakers mainly. They believe French to be one of the most standardised languages in daily speech. I bet they have never heard Russian, which is far more standardised (except for among sociolect perhaps).

But most French people understand one another in the way they speak without having to adapt their register, but they are wise to do and not speak verlan in formal occasions, or at all arguably lol.

Definitely.

But you're right. I can make myself understood and French-speaking Belgians understand me perfectly whenever I go over there.

[Tchek]

Here is an interesting play from 1910 with humour centered around the use of the Brussels dialect of French with many idioms from Dutch (specifically Brabantian dialect). Many idioms are idioms we use ourselves.

Mme Beulemans was a direct inspiration, if not admitted rip-off, for Marcel Pagnol's classic "trilogie marseillaise", but the French don't know it : )
Pagnol admitted he just replaced Brussels with Marseille.

[Tchek]

It's still a very alien world to me, French-speaking Brussels.

it's alien to me too

[Rethel]

I am now drinking Heineken.
Poles read it in Hochdeutsch, and majority probably thinks that it is FRG's beer.
But how it is pronouced in original slang? Also Hayneken?