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re: Anyone here attempted to learn Cajun French?

Posted on 3/4/18 at 8:50 pm to
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141896 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 8:50 pm to
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There's a French table in Baton Rouge every week. Used to be at coffee call.
I mean regular people not hipsters
Posted by J Murdah
Member since Jun 2008
39784 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 8:53 pm to
not sure if someone is cajun french? don't worry they will be sure to tell you regularly.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:06 pm to
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People at work act like I’m the ignorant one for not knowing it.



Well, they ARE the bilingual ones, aren't they?
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141896 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:08 pm to
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they ARE the bilingual ones, aren't they?
except they can't speak English
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:11 pm to
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except they can't speak English


Then how'd they speak to Clark W Griswold? He's established they speak Cajun French. His writing here establishes that he speaks English AND that he does not speak Cajun French.

Also, your insecure shtick when it comes to Cajuns leads me to believe that at some point a short Cajun dude fricked your girl and kicked the shite out of you afterwards. Was it Boudreaux or Thibodeaux?
This post was edited on 3/4/18 at 10:16 pm
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141896 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:15 pm to
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Then how'd they speak to Clark W Griswold? He's established they speak Cajun French. His writing here establishes that he speaks English AND that he does not speak Cajun French.
I RAed
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:17 pm to
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I RAed



Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27392 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:20 pm to
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I mean regular people not hipsters



I'll have to let the septegenarians know some douche on the internet thinks they are hipsters.
Posted by baylorbaiter
Too close to Waco
Member since Apr 2015
1494 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:42 pm to
Gross Tete!
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27392 posts
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:45 pm to
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Gross Tete!




Grosse.

I live here heathen.
Posted by forever lsu30
Member since Nov 2005
3954 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 3:19 am to
My great-grand parents lived their entire lives in Galiano/Golden Meadow.
I learned their version of cajun french before I got thru 3rd grade. My parents never knew I could understand most every word until they'd try to pull that BS about talking shite about other people or us kids that rhey didn't want us to hear. I'll never forget my old man's face when I told him "ce n'est pas mon heure de do-do. Tu va do do la bas!" as I pointed to his & my mom's bedroom. My Pawpaw practically wet himself. Which was a problem since his pantelons were clean up to his chest! Haha
Sadly, both my Mawmaw & Pawpaw passed when I was in middle school & I lost the tongue, for the most part. They were amazing people.
Posted by KG6
Member since Aug 2009
10920 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 4:50 am to
Stopped with my grandparents. All 4 spoke it. I think it stopped because that was their secret language to say things in front of us that they didn't want us to know. So there was no reason to teach us . truly, as we got older, I don't remember them speaking it anymore. But I remember it a lot as a kid.
Posted by Cotten
Tennessee
Member since Jan 2018
1255 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 6:12 am to
There are quite a few Facebook groups where guys make daily video lessons.

That being said, parents and grandparents both speak it fluently. I know enough and have taught my fiancée enough to talk shite about people in public. I’d like to be fluent though.
Posted by heatom2
At the plant, baw.
Member since Nov 2010
12810 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 6:43 am to
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Grosse.

I live here heathen.


Got a big head?
Posted by GATORGAR247
Member since Aug 2017
993 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 6:51 am to
I remember my maw maw being on the phone and when one of us walked in the room she would switch to French. She died when I was about 10. I wish I would have learned to speak it. I can understand bits and pieces but no where near enough to hold a conversation.
Posted by Nicky Parrish
Member since Apr 2016
7098 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 7:00 am to
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be good to get that trash out

Rather listen to Cajun French than hillbilly.
Posted by TexasTiger89
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2005
24279 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 7:49 am to
Aaaaaaeeeeeeeeeee
Posted by sumtimeitbeslikedat
Vidalia, La
Member since Nov 2013
4424 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:11 am to
I speak perfect Vidalian Cajun French, with a slight hint of a Ferridian accent, baw.

What would you like to know?
Or as we Vidalian Cajuns like to say....

“C’est con la flour a la signo’n se’ ma’cha ne’, baw?”

We so Cajun frenchy around here, our iPhones autocorrect in it!

This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 8:21 am
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
26989 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:21 am to
It’s dying out.

Great grand parents (all dead before I recall them) were non English speaking.

Grandparents. All 4 were fluent in English and French. My dads dad as he got older would rattle stuff off to me before he’d realize I wasn’t Dad. Then laugh and repeat it in English.

Parents. When I was young they could hold brief broken conversations in it. Christmas time I can remember they’d talk about presents with each other in French. And also any other shite they didn’t want me to understand. Now they’ve lost it. They are like me and pick up words. Granted they can pick up a LOT more than I can.

It happened that quick. From non English speaking to nobody fluent in 90 years or so.
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
124395 posts
Posted on 3/5/18 at 8:24 am to
Vernon roger taught me a few words that I still use to this day
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