DaveAgain wrote:Rabbit holes is a good sign, isn't it?
Depends, if a ferret is following you...
DaveAgain wrote:Rabbit holes is a good sign, isn't it?
It CAN be a good sign, but if you're easily distracted, one leads to another and to another and so on. And by the time you come up for air, you realize you've missed lunch and you're starving.DaveAgain wrote:Rabbit holes is a good sign, isn't it?
Nope, not going down that rabbit hole.Le Baron wrote:Depends, if a ferret is following you...
Yesterday I got a text from the phone company saying they were crediting me $15. I whined too soon.I previously wrote:Note: I got my phone bill today. Did they give a credit for 5 days without phone, without even the ability to call 911 in an emergency? No they did not.
I watched a documentary from telelouisiane.com earlier that included a little history of Gumbo lesson.Lawyer&Mom wrote:CaroleR wrote:Lawyer&Mom wrote:My step-grandad was born in 1918 in Lafourche Parish. He and his whole family spoke Cajun French. My step-dad says that was still normal for his dad’s generation, and that the decline really happened in his generation. (His dad never taught him any French, there was no need for it in California.) As of 2000, nearly 20% of Lafourche Parish still spoke French at home, by 2010 it was down to 15%. That’s still pretty impressive!
(When I called my step-dad to ask, he was cleaning up after making gumbo for a Halloween party… Cajun culture in action!)
It's wonderful that your step-grandad's generation still spoke the language. It's too bad that it wasn't passed down. What Amandine says about patriotism after the war makes sense. I love that your step-dad was cooking gumbo! It's very much Cajun or Creole I think, possibly a homegrown Louisiana specialty. It doesn't seem to have originated in Acadie, as far as I know.
There may be a connection to French Bouillabaisse, but no specific connection to Acadie that I’m aware of. I laughed that he was cooking gumbo, I had caught him in the act of being Cajun right when I was going to ask him about his heritage!
Jourdan Thibodeaux: "They told me, you can't call it gumbo if it doesn't have okra in it." Oh yeah?! Then he wrote a thesis on gumbo.DaveAgain wrote:I watched a documentary from telelouisiane.com earlier that included a little history of Gumbo lesson.
I didn't know that people from Haiti and the Dominican Republic went to Louisiana either. My book undoubtedly mentions it, but I haven't got to that yet. There are a lot of people of Hatian descent in Quebec. Language is a powerful motivator.DaveAgain wrote:I was surprised to learn in a radio programme that a lot of French-louisana people came from Haiti/Dominican Republic, fleeing the slave revolt.
CaroleR wrote:Language is a powerful motivator.
Particularly if you're fleeing slavery or some other horrible situation. Who wants to learn a new language on top of that?Le Baron wrote:CaroleR wrote:Language is a powerful motivator.
I.e. best to go to some place where you don't have to learn a new one!
CaroleR wrote:Particularly if you're fleeing slavery or some other horrible situation. Who wants to learn a new language on top of that?
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