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re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:28 pm to gumbo2176
Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:28 pm to gumbo2176
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I never hear it anymore in the New Orleans area, and haven't for many years now.
Nawlins is not Cajun, I lived in Lafayette for years, which is the big city of Acadiana, as many or more of my friends and neighbors spoke Cajun French that didn’t, you get out of town and it was a lot more prevalent
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 6:46 pm to 777Tiger
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Nawlins is not Cajun
Tell me something I don't already know. That said, I did hear Cajun French often as a kid growing up in N.O. since my family on my mom's side is 100% Cajun and a lot of them were living in N.O. back when I was a kid in the 50's.
Their circle of friends included many people who once lived in Bayou Country and they spoke Cajun French often.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 7:11 pm to 777Tiger
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I lived in Lafayette for years, which is the big city of Acadiana, as many or more of my friends and neighbors spoke Cajun French that didn’t, you get out of town and it was a lot more prevalent
I did a lot of fishing while in college with my grandpa and he said that each little town in the cajun parts of south louisiana would add their own dialect to the language. So you could go to each town and they would have their own take on certain words. I thought that was interesting.
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