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Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:25 am to SpicyStacy
I'm from NeLa and dont know a single word of cajun french, but im still with Stacy on this one. It's a shame teachers are killing south LA culture and heritage by not including that in their teachings.
Sorry OP. no clue...
Sorry OP. no clue...
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:25 am to SpicyStacy
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How bout gfy....my kid is smart as hell.
I never said your kid wasn't smart.
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Maybe they shouldn't cater to the minorities and teach french in school instead of stupid arse spanish.
Maybe you should find a new school where they teach French if you don't like this school's curriculum.
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Ill have a talk with my little bilingual "tard" thanks for the advice!
Nobody called your kid a "tard" until you did just now.
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:31 am to bigolecatfish
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I'm from NeLa and dont know a single word of cajun french, but im still with Stacy on this one. It's a shame teachers are killing south LA culture and heritage by not including that in their teachings.
but that is a completely different complaint than the one lodged by Stacy. Stacy is upset that her kid's teacher doesn't speak Cajun French.
I agree that they should be doing more to preserve the unique language and culture of Acadiana. And there are schools in South Louisiana that do have a French curriculum. Apparently this school isn't one of them. I find it hard to be mad at a teacher that doesn't speak French expecting that the kids she is teaching also speak the same language as her i.e. English. If there was a kid in the class that speaks Spanish wouldn't you expect the teacher to encourage the kid to speak English?
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:35 am to LSUnowhas2
Funny thing is that it was the public schools in the 30's-50's that killed the french language in south LA. My grand parents generation was punished for speaking it in school and as a result didn't teach it to their kids. They were looked on as ignorant for speaking french.
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:47 am to bayoudude
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Funny thing is that it was the public schools in the 30's-50's that killed the french language in south LA. My grand parents generation was punished for speaking it in school and as a result didn't teach it to their kids.
this. my uncle and my grandmother both spoke french as their first language. uncle was beaten at school for speaking it though. crying shame.
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:50 am to gorillacoco
The only place i even hear it anymore is in the nursing home where my grandmother is living. The language is down to just a few nicknames and phrases for the most part.
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:51 am to bayoudude
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Funny thing is that it was the public schools in the 30's-50's that killed the french language in south LA. My grand parents generation was punished for speaking it in school and as a result didn't teach it to their kids. They were looked on as ignorant for speaking french.
I agree with you. My grandmother grew up in Western PA and her parents allowed them to speak Italian at home and English outside the house. It was the same thing with the schools in that area. But it was important for my grandmother's parents as immigrants to this country to assimilate and become as American as they could so that they wouldn't be discriminated against.
In this situation with the OP, it isn't like the teacher flunked her kid for speaking French. The teacher just let it be known that the kid needs to work on using "correct grammer [sic] and pronunciation" . I don't see the problem with it.
Posted on 10/22/13 at 9:52 am to LeMarteau
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Allons Allons
If I had a quarter every time I heard this stacking hay when I was younger I'd be a rich man now. My pow pow spoke Cajun French when he was working, or when he was mad. The two pretty much always went together. Damn I miss that man.
Posted on 10/22/13 at 10:20 am to Tigerlaff
Thanks to all
Posted on 10/22/13 at 11:30 am to Leadhead
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Allons Allons
Alternately, "Allez! Allez!"
Usually I would just hear "allons" for "let's go", while I would hear "Allez! Allez!" for "come on!" or "hurry up!".
Allez seemed to have a more urgent meaning, but then maybe that was just how my mom made the distinction.
In my family French was usually used to gossip so the young kids wouldn't understand what they were saying about people - or them.
Posted on 10/23/13 at 8:19 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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"Allez! Allez!"
That is directed at you or a group of people. i.e., (Hey you) go over there.
"Allons" means "Let's all go over there"
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