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re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 6:04 am to Quatrepot
Posted on 10/13/23 at 6:04 am to Quatrepot
I was told that the French spoken in South Louisiana was much more like Old World French. It never had the chance to evolve like it did in France, thus the reason it sounds so much more harsh and different. I had this conversation with a doctor of mine. His father used to get sent down to South LA to work on patients who spoke Cajun French who couldn’t speak English. He was one of the only ones who could understand them.
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 6:51 am to Bigryno7
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was told that the French spoken in South Louisiana was much more like Old World French. It never had the chance to evolve like it did in France, thus the reason it sounds so much more harsh and different. I had this conversation with a doctor of mine. His father used to get sent down to South LA to work on patients who spoke Cajun French who couldn’t speak English. He was one of the only ones who could understand them.
The French spoken in Louisiana was much closer to that spoken in rural France vs proper Parisian French. Many Cajuns in WW2 found themselves injected into rural parts of France to act as interpreters and translators and some as spies. They blended in and were mistaken as locals.
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