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Cajuns in southern comfort
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:08 pm
Saw this movie over the weekend. Always been one of my favorites.
Are there still Cajuns in rural south Louisiana that live like this and mostly converse in French?
Are there still Cajuns in rural south Louisiana that live like this and mostly converse in French?
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Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:10 pm to justaniceguy
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Saw this movie over the weekend. Always been one of my favorites.
Are there still Cajuns in rural south Louisiana that live like this and mostly converse in French?
No idea what movie you are talking about.
But there are definitely people in south Louisiana that still speak Cajun-French.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:11 pm to justaniceguy
The cajun-french language is dying off with the last generation that fluently spoke it. My grandparents spoke it well and my parents do not at all.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:13 pm to justaniceguy
Saw that movie when it came out.
Classic and still watch it every chance I can.
Classic and still watch it every chance I can.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:14 pm to bbarras85
My parents spoke it but didn’t teach me or my siblings. It was a combination of laziness and being able to talk about the kids in front of them.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:15 pm to justaniceguy
I’m sure but they are few and far between(as far as living in those shacks go). Plenty Cajun French still being spoken. I know a 40 year old baw from carencro that used to get beat in school because he wouldn’t speak English.
This post was edited on 6/13/22 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:17 pm to bbarras85
quote:I never understood a word my grandparents said when I visited them in Houma as a child. My dad understood and spoke their language but he never taught us kids.
The cajun-french language is dying off with the last generation that fluently spoke it. My grandparents spoke it well and my parents do not at all.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:19 pm to RT1941
Go to the Pierre Part store, Spunky Monkey, or Paizzanos near Belle River
People or all ages there still speak Cajun French regularly
People or all ages there still speak Cajun French regularly
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:22 pm to justaniceguy
My dad spoke solely cajun French until around age 6 or 7. School beat him into speaking English. He's 71 now.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:24 pm to justaniceguy
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Are there still Cajuns in rural south Louisiana that live like this and mostly converse in French?
I don't know about these days, but nearly forty years ago I met a fellow near Cocodrie who was so Cajun that he didn't even laugh in English!
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:30 pm to lsupride87
quote:I'm glad to hear this, I love that the language isn't lost. My grandparents are deceased but my dad & I drive down to visit family a couple of times a year all over Terrebonne parish.
Go to the Pierre Part store, Spunky Monkey, or Paizzanos near Belle River
People or all ages there still speak Cajun French regularly
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:32 pm to justaniceguy
Random deal, but my grandfather was a spitting image to Powers Boothe in this movie.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:33 pm to RT1941
Who can forget when they stole the pirogues.
Ol Stucky, " polly Vu F Me"
Then he cuts loose with the M60 and blank ammo
Ol Stucky, " polly Vu F Me"
Then he cuts loose with the M60 and blank ammo
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:41 pm to MSTiger33
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My parents spoke it but didn’t teach me or my siblings.
Same for me growing up in the 50's and 60's in N.O.
My mom's side of the family were 100% Coonass with many of my extended family from that side living on the bayous fishing, trawling and trapping for a living.
When they would get together, they'd all talk in Cajun French so us kids didn't know who they were tearing up.
I wanted to learn, but back in those days it was frowned upon in the schools and there was a big push to let the language die out with the elders.
A few years ago one of my good friends was in the hospital in Houma dealing with cancer and I'd hear lots of the older folk talking in Cajun French when I visited him and that was like music to my ears. I NEVER hear Cajun French any more in the N.O. area when out in public.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 3:46 pm to justaniceguy
I love that movie
Especially with Dewey Balfa playing at the end
Especially with Dewey Balfa playing at the end
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:01 pm to justaniceguy
My late wife grew up in St. Landry Parish in the 1940s and spoke only French until she started school. Neither of our children speak any French.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:12 pm to justaniceguy
Lifestyle and language is dying out but some semblance of it still around.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:12 pm to justaniceguy
Not a single one who is like those in the movie.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:13 pm to MSTiger33
dad was beaten almost every single day at school for speaking French even across the street from school
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