re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.

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I was just talking to someone I work with how it makes me sad that cajun french is almost nonexistent now

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My mom's side of the family is 100% Cajun French and I can vividly remember as a kid listening to the women gathered around the kitchen table drinking cafe'au lait and speaking in Cajun French.

I thought it funny how they'd sprinkle a few English words in with their French.

This was back in the 50's as my earliest memories. We'd head out to the bayou country to visit extended family and that was all the spoke when they got together. All those folks were either trappers, hunters, trawlers, oystermen or a combination of the above.

I wanted to learn the language but NOBODY would take the time to teach me and at the time, speaking it was considered a sign of being less educated.