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re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 2:33 pm to real turf fan
Posted on 10/12/23 at 2:33 pm to real turf fan
I was just talking to someone I work with how it makes me sad that cajun french is almost nonexistent now
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 2:39 pm to Pedro
They have doubled in number in the last ten years. From approximately 100k to roughly 250k.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 2:50 pm to Pedro
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I was just talking to someone I work with how it makes me sad that cajun french is almost nonexistent now
My Bro and i grew up with grandma and grandpa having friends over for coffee and all conversations were in Cajun french. We didnt understand a word they were saying.
This post was edited on 10/12/23 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 10/12/23 at 3:26 pm to Pedro
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was just talking to someone I work with how it makes me sad that cajun french is almost nonexistent now
My grandfather has an old bumper sticker written in French from the Eisenhower campaign
Posted on 10/12/23 at 4:58 pm to Pedro
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I was just talking to someone I work with how it makes me sad that cajun french is almost nonexistent now
My mom's side of the family is 100% Cajun French and I can vividly remember as a kid listening to the women gathered around the kitchen table drinking cafe'au lait and speaking in Cajun French.
I thought it funny how they'd sprinkle a few English words in with their French.
This was back in the 50's as my earliest memories. We'd head out to the bayou country to visit extended family and that was all the spoke when they got together. All those folks were either trappers, hunters, trawlers, oystermen or a combination of the above.
I wanted to learn the language but NOBODY would take the time to teach me and at the time, speaking it was considered a sign of being less educated.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:39 am to Pedro
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I was just talking to someone I work with how it makes me sad that cajun french is almost nonexistent now
my wife's grandmother passed away two weeks ago and while at the wake i was sitting by her grandpa and was listening to him speak cajun french with his relatives. i'd love to learn it. one of his nephews was there, he lives in michigan, but he was in nova scotia when she passed. he drove all the way back to michigan and took a flight to be at the funeral. he was in NS tracking down his lineage and i asked him if they speak cajun french there and he said its not far off from cajun french. he traced his lineage back all the way to the 1200s. amazing stuff.
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