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When did the french language become obsolete in Acadiana
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:15 pm
My dad grew up in the 50s and 60s. He made it seem like a lot of people were speaking it back then, "even the colored boys". When I visit the only time I hear it is when my grandparents speak it.
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Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:15 pm to cheesesteak501
Because the old people didn't teach it to the young people.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:16 pm to cheesesteak501
Thanks Obama!!!
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:18 pm to cheesesteak501
You can thank the government for that. Encouraged schools and businesses to squash it out in a single generation
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:24 pm to DrunkerThanThou
Several schools in New Orleans teach French. Not sure what you're talking about.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:24 pm to CaptainsWafer
Fairly accurate, combined with French programs being swapped for Spanish programs. My grand parents and dad spoke Cajun French but only when they didn't want you to know what they were saying. So it pretty much died with them.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:26 pm to cheesesteak501
It's all my great grandmother speaks.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:27 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Several schools in New Orleans teach French. Not sure what you're talking about.
Along with everywhere else in the country.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:27 pm to cheesesteak501
Don't they still call each other "Baw". 
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:29 pm to cheesesteak501
Yeah, my grandparents had to learn English when they went to school. That would have been around the late 40s, early 50s. My parents were born in the 60s, and they don't speak it fluently. So I'd say somewhere in that range.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:30 pm to cheesesteak501
My grandmother is about 75 and she mentioned kids would get in trouble at school for speaking it.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:34 pm to danilo
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My grandmother is about 75 and she mentioned kids would get in trouble at school for speaking it.
Yep, that was the story I was told as well.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:39 pm to Matisyeezy
Heard they would use the ruler.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:39 pm to cheesesteak501
I speak Spanish and I'm pretty good at Italian and I'm having a tough time with French.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:39 pm to danilo
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My grandmother is about 75 and she mentioned kids would get in trouble at school for speaking it.
This. Not sure when it happened, but for a while French-speaking children were actively discouraged from using the language at schools.
There are a good amount of French immersion schools in Louisiana now (especially in Acadiana), so there has been a resurgence in recent years to try and teach it to young children.
This post was edited on 9/12/15 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:51 pm to tgrbaitn08
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schools in New Orleans teach French
Comparing school French to Acadian French is like comparing school English to England English.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:52 pm to cheesesteak501
Public schools physically beat the French language out of louisiana children starting around the 1930s. By the 50s, parents stopped teaching their children french because of the perception of french speakers as stupid and slow.
Only now are governments, parents, and educators trying to bring it back, but it's basically a lost cause. The dialect is all but dead. Really, all that could be done at this point would be to follow Quebec's example and force french back on children, making them learn both. However, it's a pipe dream. This generation, just like the last and the next, will not know french.
Only now are governments, parents, and educators trying to bring it back, but it's basically a lost cause. The dialect is all but dead. Really, all that could be done at this point would be to follow Quebec's example and force french back on children, making them learn both. However, it's a pipe dream. This generation, just like the last and the next, will not know french.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:57 pm to 007mag
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schools in New Orleans teach French
Comparing school French to Acadian French is like comparing school English to England English.
What the frick are you talking about? I'm not comparing anything. I was responding to a specific post about French not being taught in schools any more.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 5:59 pm to cheesesteak501
My dad's first language is French and he was the one who encouraged me to take Spanish in high school. Its much more practical today.
Posted on 9/12/15 at 6:00 pm to tgrbaitn08
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What the frick are you talking about? I'm not comparing anything. I was responding to a specific post about French not being taught in schools any more.
My post wasn't about french being taught, it was about being spoken around town.
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