Why Coach HUD?

[CajunJeaux]

Anybody else on this board speak Cajun French?

All I got is fils putain..

[BeauCajun]

I can some. Been practicing with a friend at work. It brings back good memories and the more I practice the more it comes back to me.

Then there is the added bonus of being able to talk with no one around knowing what you're saying.

I’ve been practicing lately also. Heading across the big pond to the motherland in May.

[CajunVic]

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I’ve been practicing lately also. Heading across the big pond to the motherland in May.

You going to Lake Arthur?

[KajunKrazy]

So you’re not Cajun. My grandma woke me up with a cafe’ au lait at about three years of age.

I had coffe milk in my bottle.

[CajunVic]

My grandma Ville Platte Cajun Soileau. Now my mother a victim of English language in school always said coffee milk. So I'm not buying your facts as universal.

I learned my French listening to them speaking to each other and others. They spoke nothing but English to my brother and myself. Being bilingual wasn't viewed as an asset in mid 20th century by many.

Cafe Aulet - yat

Coffee Milk - Cajun

[angeleast]

Amazing how a thread about Hud turned into a thread on the origins of milk/coffee and cultural differences. Love it!!

[mahtoo]

I’ve been practicing lately also. Heading across the big pond to the motherland in May.

Did that several years ago. Was able to get by but every now and then had to say "Whoa. Slow down. You're speaking too fast.".

[CajunEXPRESS]

I had coffe milk in my bottle.

And she wondered why ya couldn’t sleep the night away.

[CajunAmos]

Cafe Aulet - yat

Coffee Milk - Cajun

Grew up in Norco and for my mom it was milk coffee. I guess you could use milk coffee when you're small and there is more milk than coffee, and change it to coffee milk as you get older and have more coffee than milk. Cafe Aulet, while i really like it, was not what I had at home.

[BeauCajun]

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You going to Lake Arthur?

Think bigger pond and more in the easterly direction.

[Ragin4U]

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You going to Lake Arthur?

Underappreciated comment of the year.

Coffee milk for me too in Crowley. Now I do love a good coffee stout and Parish brews the best. Not a fan of the barrel-aged however.

Such a shame my parents were punished for speaking French at school and now we have to scramble to preserve the language here. Unfortunately I do know a few people who consider a bilingual education to be somehow un-American, so maybe the pendulum is swinging back.