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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
well that makes more sense than anything i can think of...
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In both the Cajun and Creole areas (the difference being more ethnic than anything else -- Cajuns are ethnically White, while Creoles are a mixture of White, Black and American Indian -- mostly Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole) there are lots of words that are mangled French/English/and who knows what.
A good example is when they want to call you "dear" or "sweetie" they don't say "cherie" (and pardon me if I spelled that wrong), they say "cher". I must have heard that word a bazillion times back when I decided it would be fun to explore the Bayou Country in a canoe with a Cajun guide.
He, and his whole family, although they lived less than 20 miles or so from New Orleans, had never been there. If they couldn't make it, hunt it, or gather it from what they found out in the bayou, then they just didn't much need it.
My guide told me a joke I will never forget. What is the difference between a naturalist/scientist and a Cajun? The naturalist will give you the common name for the animal, the habitat and behavior information, and the Latin taxanomic name for the animal. The Cajun will give you the common name, the habitat and behavior information, and at least twenty recipes for each one.
I rather fear they did not survive Katrina, but there's really no way to know unless I wander around in a canoe and try to find them again. I hope they made it. It was so much fun, tossing marshmallows (that I bought from the store) to the gators. Those gators LOVED marshmallows!!