Geaux and the Cajun sounding connection

[DrySwamp]

_ Guess you've never been to Head of Island, French Settlement, Pierre Part, and other places around Baton Rouge. I'm from Lafayette, but their are plenty of cajuns and coonasses in the Baton Rouge area.

Let's quit squabbling over non-issues and start figuring out how to win some football games. _

I worked in Baton Rouge (commuting from Laf.) for 4 years for a large Engineering company & a Gas company. In that time, I think I worked with 2-3 guys with a Cajun accent, one being originally from Ville Platte. There are cajun names in Baton Rouge but the people are definitly not like the people in the Acadiana area. Some were very nice but were just different.

GEAUX, GEAUX, GEAUX CAJUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

[RaginFan2]

I worked in Baton Rouge (commuting from Laf.) for 4 years for a large Engineering company & a Gas company. In that time, I think I worked with 2-3 guys with a Cajun accent, one being originally from Ville Platte. There are cajun names in Baton Rouge but the people are definitly not like the people in the Acadiana area. Some were very nice but were just different.

GEAUX, GEAUX, GEAUX CAJUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

I lived in Prairieville for a couple of years and worked in BR. There are definitely some Cajuns in Ascension Parish and the other river parishes between BR and NO. There is a definite change when you cross from East BR Parish into Ascension. Unfortunately, most people moving into Ascension (the state's second-fastest growing parish) are not Cajun. There is also a difference in the Cajuns in that area and the ones closer to Lafayette. Both are nice, just a bit different. When I worked in BR, I very rarely ran into anyone with a Cajun accent, even those with "Cajun" last names.

[Membertou]

_ Seems like you prove a point, there is a difference between staking a claim and part of the culture. I would bet there are French claims all over Louisiana, heck the whole world identifies Louisiana as French. It's just that only in Acadiana and over to Houma are French and Cajun ways part of the culture. _

Houma is in Acadiana, as is Thibodaux, Galliano, Lake Charles, Cameron, Pierre Part, etc. Acadiana is a 22 parish area.

[Membertou]

_ It comes from an English pronunciaton of a word with a Cajun French accent. Have you ever heard a European French accent? It's completely different from Cajun French accents. That why we pronounce it that way. _

I lived in France. What you say is ridiculous.

[Hooj_Cajun_Fan]

_ I lived in France. What you say is ridiculous. _

I just came back from France. What I say is not ridiculous.

It's a different dialect. It's like saying that someone from England sounds the same as someone from America, they simply don't. Especially someone from the Yorkshire region of England, alot of those guys we would barely be able to understand.

The Cajun people were separated from France for hundreds of years. Over that time the dialect changed, words had to be invented, and pronunciations changed due to English and Spanish influences...among other things.

[CajunRebel]

Yes you are right that Geaux isn't a French word. It's just a play on the fact that many last names here end in -eaux and pronounced "o" so instead of go Cajuns it's Geaux Cajuns. igeaux.mobi

[TheLastCajun]

You md me log on ______. French spelling rules are bunk. Little known fact "x" was sometimes added for plural. Any language that has traveled around the world will always have spelling exceptions.

[CajunFun]

_ Back to the Muses, Fun. .... the worst in New Orleans is Clio ...

Pronounced by the locals as C L ten. [Street signs are all caps: hence CLIO] _

Yeah, sorta like the 710 system in the typical car...

[CajunFun]

_ Back to the Muses, Fun. .... the worst in New Orleans is Clio ...

Pronounced by the locals as C L ten. [Street signs are all caps: hence CLIO] _

PS Who can name the rest of the Muses?

NO SEARCHING, HAS TO BE FROM MEMORY!!!

Lessee,

Calliope, Melpomene, Euterpe... I'm tapped. And I can't remember ANYTHING about which discipline they represent...

[VObserver]

PS Who can name the rest of the Muses?

NO SEARCHING, HAS TO BE FROM MEMORY!!!

Lessee,

Calliope, Melpomene, Euterpe... I'm tapped. And I can't remember ANYTHING about which discipline they represent...

Also: Terpsicore, Clio, Erato, Polyhymnia, two more I don't remember. Can't spell any of them.


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