No offense taken at all. I'm actually an Irish/German boy from New
Orleans, so my exposure to Cajun French is second-hand. I didn't learn
it as my first language at my daddy's knee like those "down-bayou"
Cajuns, some of whom even went to French-(Cajun)-speaking schools until
high school. grin
This particualr thread/phrase reminds me, however, that even New
Orleanians who don't speak it use a lot of borrowed words and phrases,
like saying (of a broken thing) "It won't march." Obviously carried
over from "ne marche pas."
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