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Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:18 pm to CitizenK
My grandma would switch to french while she was on the phone then look at me out of the corner of her eye just to see if I was picking up on any of it knowing she was talking about my mother (her daughter in-law) 
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Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:35 pm to justaniceguy
I used to work for a company out of Lafayette and this lady I worked got a dog from her grandfather who had to go to a nursing home. He told her the dog was really smart and minded very well. She couldn't get the dog to do anything, he wouldn't even sit. She went to visit her grandfather and told him the dog was dumb as a rock. He said, "baby he doesn't speak english, he speaks french"
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:44 pm to justaniceguy
Not to the same degree as seen in that movie but there are pockets and portions of that movie that are definitely still lived. The musicians are the Balfa Brothers from Mamou and there were several other Mamouians who played roles in that movie
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:45 pm to tigersownall
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I know a 40 year old baw from carencro that used to get beat in school because he wouldn’t speak English.
Oh come on.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:48 pm to CitizenK
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dad was beaten almost every single day at school for speaking French even across the street from school
Beaten by whom?
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:49 pm to Mo Jeaux
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I know a 40 year old baw from carencro that used to get beat in school because he wouldn’t speak English.
Oh come on.
1930s or 40s would be probably the last time anyone could realistically say that.
No way in 1980.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:52 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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1930s or 40s would be probably the last time anyone could realistically say that.
No way in 1980.
Exactly.
Always heard those stories from my grandfather, but he was born in 1919. Even then, I sometimes got the feeling that the stories were a little exaggerated. 
Posted on 6/13/22 at 4:52 pm to CitizenK
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They switched to French when the gossip was really juicy
Ha! Yeah that's when I knew my mom, grandmother, and great grandmother were talking about people while shopping at the grocery store.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 5:01 pm to Mo Jeaux
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1930s or 40s would be probably the last time anyone could realistically say that.
No way in 1980.
Yeah, my grandfather was born in 1917 and used to talk about having to kneel in the corner if caught by the nuns speaking French, but didn't mention being beaten. It did cause him to be sort of ashamed and hesitant to speak Cajun French in public later in life, though.
Sadly, my generation in my family didn't learn the language even though my mom, my grandparents, and my great grandparents all spoke it fluently and regularly in conversations when I was growing up. It has died out in my family.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 5:07 pm to justaniceguy
I was in Lafayette in the late 80s and there were people around Port Barre that didn’t speak any English that was recognizable. Rowed their Pirogue once a week to town to check for mail.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 5:21 pm to CitizenK
My wife's grandfather would get excited telling a story or something, start talking french... miss that old grumpy arse man
Posted on 6/13/22 at 5:26 pm to CitizenK
When the movie came out was it more likely? Or did they overexaggerate this scene
Posted on 6/13/22 at 5:38 pm to justaniceguy
My mom grew up in the 50s in Pointe aux Chene, it was still very much like that back then. They had a 1 room shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing, had an outhouse and used a pot d’chambre at night. In the 80s when I was a kid PAC had largely modernized, but some still lived that way and hardly anybody spoke English. Now it still feels like another country and some of the Indian’s houses still look like they were built from drift wood, but almost none survived the storm so even that is about over with. You still hear French spoken in the homes and stores, but even there it’s beginning to fade. In another 20 years don’t know if anybody will converse in the native tongue. French immersion is helping, but those kids aren’t exactly speaking Cajun French.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 6:11 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Beaten by whom?
Back in the 50's and 60's they had corporal punishment in many schools. I can remember my little sister being slapped on the hand with a ruler because she wrote left handed----that is, until our mom went to school and got on the teacher's arse for it, then it stopped.
But they went to extremes to keep kids from learning Cajun French telling them they were speaking an ignorant, outdated language. Of course you could take French in high school, but it was Classical French.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 6:14 pm to Kadjin
Wife's family is from Opelousas and plaucheville. Now since old folks have died its just quick sayings in French. Won't be long until that's gone
Posted on 6/13/22 at 6:16 pm to goofball
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But there are definitely people in south Louisiana that still speak Cajun-French.
Ville Platte is the first that comes to mind. Which is north of I-10 for all of you ignorant folk.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 6:18 pm to justaniceguy
I believe that the movie is an allegory for the Vietnam war. The Cajun trappers are the Viet Cong
Posted on 6/13/22 at 6:18 pm to justaniceguy
There used to be a radio station that I listened to in the Eunice, Mamou and Ville Platte areas that broadcast in French. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 6:28 pm to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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There used to be a radio station that I listened to in the Eunice, Mamou and Ville Platte areas that broadcast in French. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
My late father-in-law lived in Avoylles Parish in Mansura. He'd wake up around 5 a.m. every morning and put 2 tv's on at the same time to watch the news. One would be in English, the other in Cajun French.
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