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RE: Unfamilliar languages, was:RE: The Burden of Screen Captures
Subject:RE: Unfamilliar languages, was:RE: The Burden of Screen Captures From:Madelyn Boudreaux <MBoudreaux -at- Ovid -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:01:46 -0700
Gregory Sweet wrote:
> IIRC-Cajun is its own flavor of French. From what I've heard,
> a French person would not be able to converse easily with a
> Cajun person.
Not quite... It's just an archaic version of French with a few other
languages thrown in for good seasoning. The aforementioned conversation
would likely be something like a modern American conversing with Thomas
Jefferson. Differences are mostly in spelling and diction. It spent a good
150+ a language of unschooled illiterates, so by the time they started
writing again, a lot of evolution had occurred. Content vs. style (ducking)?
I didn't intend to delurk with such an unimportant post, but the better part
of discretion lost out to my cultural pride.
- Madelyn Boudreaux (I would probably be a Boudrot if I was French, not
Cajun, illustrating the spelling shift and the ending -X of an presumably
illiterate ancestor's signature.)
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