re: Differences between a Cajun and Coonass

They're just Erath people

First question: Are you a Cajun?

If yes, second question: Have you ever kept bad blood with someone for a lifetime over something trivial?

If yes: third question: Do you know what a bull eye is?

If yes to all previous statements.... coonass.

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Je connais un peu.

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Mais, c'est "tu parles français," mon ami. C'est bonne chance que tu as écrit 'parler' et pas 'écrire.'


...je pense

They need cajun Rosetta Stone.

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Eunice coonass country or Cajun?

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Eunice is Cajun, it's on the prairie.

LC

Avoyelles parish is the Mason-Dixon Line of Louisiana.

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C'est bonne chance que tu as écrit 'parler' et pas 'écrire.'

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Monsignor Daigle tried to document the Cajun language, but it really isn't a written one. That's not to say he was unsuccessful, the book is a great document.

LC

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Monsignor Daigle tried to document the Cajun language, but it really isn't a written one. That's not to say he was unsuccessful, the book is a great document.

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I haven't gotten around to reading his book yet. LSU's Francophone Studies department did their best to come up with a little online dictionary/resource found here. It hasn't been updated since 2005, and it's difficult to find through their own website (though easy with Google), but it's at least decent when used in conjunction with a standard French-English dictionary.

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always thought of coonass kind of as a term of endearment

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Read my post a little up about that. It's highly offensive (where I come from) for someone to call you a coonass, but there's a part of the group that does use it as a proud identifier/term of endearment.

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I'm a white Mick from "up da bayou."

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I'm just a simple kid who grew up on the prairie.

Where did I say there was a difference? So I'm a dickhead? you dumb fricking coonass.