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re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:09 pm to real turf fan
Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:09 pm to real turf fan
An Alabama barner here, but just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed this thread. I had no idea of the history of being shunned for speaking French in Louisiana back in the day. Very interesting.
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:12 pm to auwaterfowler
There's a renewed interest in it lately. Hopefully it will come back and prosper.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:24 pm to auwaterfowler
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An Alabama barner here, but just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed this thread. I had no idea of the history of being shunned for speaking French in Louisiana back in the day. Very interesting.
Cajun French is still spoken in some parts of La., mostly rural areas. I never hear it anymore in the New Orleans area, and haven't for many years now.
As the older folks in my family died, so did the language, and me closing in on 71, there's not but a handful of relatives older than me still alive.
About 10 years ago I had a friend who was dealing with cancer and I went to visit him in the hospital in Houma, La., about 50 or so miles outside New Orleans.
My friends wife wanted to smoke a cigarette and we walked out to a common area outside the hospital and I heard several groups of people speaking Cajun French and it brought back so many memories. It was good to hear the language was still alive in some areas.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 8:32 pm to auwaterfowler
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An Alabama barner here, but just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed this thread. I had no idea of the history of being shunned for speaking French in Louisiana back in the day. Very interesting
My dad told me about the day the man from Baton Rouge to his school and it was the end of speaking French in school. This was around 1953. He grew up in Broussard and said they knew very few people that spoke English. He recalls pulling his buddy aside at recess and asked him "you think we will ever learn the English stuff?"
He did. He always spoken French to his mother and sometimes siblings. He tried to teach me French but I thought it was stupid and had zero interest.
My generation 1965-1975 had tons of exposure and opportunities to learn French. We were stupid.
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