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re: Things the average American doesn't know about Louisiana
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Part of the State was once it's own Republic. The Republic of West Florida.
SIAP
SIAP
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Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:27 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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I wonder how many ppl even in Louisiana know what a Creole is.
“French Creole” described someone of European ancestry born in the colony and the term “Louisiana Creole” described someone of mixed racial ancestry
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:33 pm to BruslyTiger
Lafourche and Terrebonne accents vary from town to town. There's about 20 accents here
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That the West, sorry, Bestbank is to the east.
Louisiana women are the hottest, finest, sweetest, hottest women in the country!
Louisiana women are the hottest, finest, sweetest, hottest women in the country!
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:42 pm to Jim Rockford
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Most of us aren't of French descent.
No, I'm of French descent I'm however not of Cajun descent.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 12:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Some items that have not been mentioned....1) More state employees than Pennsylvania. 2) Community college to 4-yr university ratio. 3) Most expensive auto insurance in the nation. 4) Residents that are native to the state and have never left or relocated from another state (highly debateable - I have no proof and suspect this is changing dramatically post Katrina).
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
tomatoes
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
tomatoes
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
tomatoes -
red roux vs. brown roux
red roux vs. brown roux
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
tomatoes -
red roux vs. brown roux
red roux vs. brown roux
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:18 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Treme is the oldest black neighborhood in America, not just the name of an HBO series
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:18 pm to JohnZeroQ
Did you grow up in south LA? It's pretty easy for myself and most of my friends to guess at least an adjacent city to where someone is from. I guess it has more to do with how many people I have had interactions with throughout southern Louisiana. After one or two sentences I can usually guess correctly
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:20 pm to BestBanker
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Louisiana women are the hottest, finest, sweetest, hottest women in the country!
They may be in Acadiana, but the Westminster Kennel Club runner-ups that went to my high school certainly are not.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 1:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Just in the past two weeks my daughter's future college roommates have asked:
Do they really have alligators all over?
Do people have to take boats to school?
Do people really eat alligators?
What do people do for a living besides fish and play music?
3 of these girls are from Texas and one from California.
Do they really have alligators all over?
Do people have to take boats to school?
Do people really eat alligators?
What do people do for a living besides fish and play music?
3 of these girls are from Texas and one from California.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:22 pm to Hammertime
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Couldn't be more wrong than that. You can tell where someone's family is from i.e. Uptown old money, uptown no money, Metairie, kenner, Harvey, Arabi, Chalmette, etc. Just in the NO metro area there are probably 15 different accents. That doesn't count the outlying areas of each parish.
Accents map
This guy did an interesting study on accents. He broke the US down into 8 major dialects and found Louisiana to have 5 of them.
I'll quote a little for the TL; DR crowd.
"The various dialects of New Orleans make it the most unusual dialect situation in all of North America. Some neighborhoods speak Classical Southern, and other neighborhoods speak a dialect which doesn’t sound Southern at all, but instead sounds exactly like Greater New York City until you listen for a while."
"New Orleans seems to be the only city in North America in which the entire city does not have the same dialect."
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