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re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.

Posted on 10/12/23 at 4:49 pm to
Posted by TigerGman
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 4:49 pm to
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Same. My parents and grandparents all spoke it. They were too lazy to teach us.


Wrong. My mother would tell us how if you were caught speaking french, you'd get the ruler to the hands.

They literally tried to beat the cajun french out of you.

Posted by MSTiger33
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 4:55 pm to
Please. That was in the 40s and 50s. Maybe the 60s. I was born in the 70s. You started seeing the immersion programs appear in the late 80s and early 90s.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:02 pm to
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They literally tried to beat the cajun french out of you.
my great grandma only went to the second grade bc the school burned down and it wasn’t worth rebuilding for ‘those Cajuns’
This post was edited on 10/12/23 at 5:26 pm
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