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re: French speech in Louisiana
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:33 am to Guess
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:33 am to Guess
From lockport south down bayou lafourche has kept the language alive the best in south east LA. I don't even remember the last time i heard french spoken in Houma. You would most likely need to go to a nursing home. My grand parents were the last generation in my family to speak french as a first language. Since they were punished in school for speaking french they did not stress teaching it to their children and the language pretty much died out within a generation.
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Posted on 7/20/16 at 11:42 am to Guess
You know Adonis and Leo b. And all them tho right? My username pretty much says who I am.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 11:50 am to Guess
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My grandfather spoke French as a first language, traveled to Europe extensively, and taught French in highschool. He always said that the dialect spoken Plaquemines
we are talking closest to the Acadian dialect that came from Canada after the Protestants were attacked in western France, left France for Canada and later moved south to Louisiana.
Plaquemines is the winner due to remote location.
My high school French teacher was from there and his English showed it.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 11:52 am to Guess
I don't think you can say one is closest to the "original" French spoken here. Groups migrated here at different time periods and from different regions. Some French were here before the Grand Dérangement, some came from that, some later came from different regions of France. Amusing factoid: I studied French at LSU and when i went to a 5 week immersion program in Québec,they said I had a cajun accent when I spoke French. I guess living here, you just pick up the rhythm and pronunciation of the Cajun French language even when speaking English.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 12:21 pm to Peytonknows
Why don't you 2 just PM each other with your names? Geez, y'alls little hint dropping guessing game has taken up half the thread. 
Posted on 7/20/16 at 12:38 pm to saint tiger225
Ghetto is a pretty big language now too. Many people speak it, and don't really know much English.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 12:39 pm to saint tiger225
Is there now a pm feature on td? Otherwise bece mon cheu
This post was edited on 7/20/16 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 7/20/16 at 12:42 pm to Guess
I took 5 years in high school and two semesters at LSU. Don't know shite.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 12:58 pm to Guess
My parents host a French club in my hometown every other month. There are usually about 70+ People that show up for dinner. No one under the age 60 is there. Most are in there late 70s or early 80s
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:00 pm to CelticDog
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Plaquemines is the winner due to remote location.
spent an awful lot of time in plaquemines parish and from 1970 until today and never once heard anyone talk french
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:02 pm to Guess
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no... Plaquemines had very very few french folk....
You're mistaken. I grew up there and most of the older people around me growing up were fluent in French. I had a great uncle who could barely speak English.
what part of plaquemines parish?
one little enclave near port sulphur..... less that 4 families... hardly counts...
i'll trust the data from the state on that.. 0% for plaquemines parish
This post was edited on 7/20/16 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:14 pm to choupiquesushi
Avoyelles Parish is the winner
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:15 pm to choupiquesushi
There were definitely French speaking families in diamond on the old hwy. there were even colonies of them out in ostrica that spoke French. Creole/French.
This post was edited on 7/20/16 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:39 pm to Peytonknows
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There were definitely French speaking families in diamond on the old hwy. there were even colonies of them out in ostrica that spoke French. Creole/French.
long gone
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:42 pm to choupiquesushi
I believe in 50 years Cajun french will be a thing of the past.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:45 pm to saintsfan1977
Vermilion has a shite load of folks who still speak it as a first language.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:48 pm to saintsfan1977
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I believe in 50 years Cajun french will be a thing of the past.
heck the accent is vanishing fast
Posted on 7/20/16 at 1:58 pm to Tiger1242
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This is very rare and most people on here are greatly exaggerating.
No. It's almost non-existent in the Baton Rouge area.
If I went into any fairly populated restaurant in Acadiana and asked someone to translate some Cajun French for me, someone would be able to do it. You still have French Immersion schools in Lafayette. Kids still learn to curse in French due to their parents having all of their adult conversations in French.
We're about to lose the French as first language generation. That much is true.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 2:02 pm to choupiquesushi
Not much more now. I'm old enough, like many, that my grandparents were fluent in both. When the 4 would get together they'd ramble for an hour.
I was born in LA but raised in Texas. I still said "mah" before things like "mah yeah" "mah i dont know" when I was 4-5. My dad laughed when I got to kindergarten. He told me I should stop. "Nobody says that here. They won't know what you are saying".
First ER job I ever had we had an old dementia patient with chest pain. The staff is trying to question him while family is coming in the room. He is steadily cussing them in French. I start laughing and tell them "you won't like what he called you and it won't be helpful". Everyone is slack jawed that I can speak to him. I told them to pump the breaks. I can only talk dirty and certainly could not get a history and physical for the doc. This regularly happened in port Arthur Texas back then. I worked with a Vietnamese RN who heard enough French in her life to know when she was being cursed or hit on by the old fellas.
I was born in LA but raised in Texas. I still said "mah" before things like "mah yeah" "mah i dont know" when I was 4-5. My dad laughed when I got to kindergarten. He told me I should stop. "Nobody says that here. They won't know what you are saying".
First ER job I ever had we had an old dementia patient with chest pain. The staff is trying to question him while family is coming in the room. He is steadily cussing them in French. I start laughing and tell them "you won't like what he called you and it won't be helpful". Everyone is slack jawed that I can speak to him.
I told them to pump the breaks. I can only talk dirty and certainly could not get a history and physical for the doc. This regularly happened in port Arthur Texas back then. I worked with a Vietnamese RN who heard enough French in her life to know when she was being cursed or hit on by the old fellas. 
Posted on 7/20/16 at 2:07 pm to Halftrack
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Ghetto is a pretty big language now too. Many people speak it, and don't really know much English.
If only they could have it beat out of them like back in the day when people spoke French.
I wish that garbage would die out in a generation.
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