Talk:Cajun English

message: Since there is CAJUN English, I'm curious as to whether or not there is ACADIAN English. Remember, Cajun French and Acadian French aren't the same dialect. Logically, the same would apply to English. Gringo300 02:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I made my point exactly. Now do you have anything positive to contribute? Gringo300 19:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If I understand correctly, Cajun English would be considered a dialect of American English, and from what I can tell, Cajuns tend to be Americans, so someone thought it would be redundant to use the term "Cajun AMERICAN English". But from what I can tell, Americans of Acadian descent would be referred to as "Acadian Americans", because Acadians as an ethnic group originated outside of America. So perhaps the term "Acadian American English" would make more sense than the term "Cajun American English". I feel like I left something out... Gringo300 (talk) 19:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If Cajuns tend to be Americans for the most part, as you say, then the term "Cajun American English" would be redundant.  It's kind of like saying "American baseball".  "Cajun" is the term we use for descendants of Acadian exiles who live in Louisiana.  I hope that clears everything up. Thegryseone (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 'Typing in "to do the grocery shopping" or "make groceries" into Google Translate and translating to French will output "faire l'épicerie" for each phrase.'  This is not really encyclopaedic but I don't know how to cyhange it.  Maybe just by saying a direct translation is ...? Novalia (talk) 14:37, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Translate 

message: Perhaps interesting for some related cultural articles: Good God But You Smart! Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns by Nichole E. Stanford, 2016, Utah State University Press Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 19:04, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New book 

message: Born and raised in South Louisiana/Acadiana, here are my edits.
Absolutspacegirl (talk) 05:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual Cajun trying to clean this up a bit 

message: I think the 2nd pronunciation chart in the phonology section should be deleted. Not only is it unsourced, it is just plain wrong on most of the Cajun pronunciations. I've never heard anyone in Acadiana pronounce pecan 'pecorn' or say 'fink' for think. The pronunciations that are correct are redundant, with "dat" and "dey" being explained immediately before the chart. It also doesn't make sense to include proper nouns like surnames as examples of alternate pronunciations, because most of these last names are not common in other regions of the US. A person unfamiliar with Cajun names would have no basis for a 'standard' pronunciation of Hebert (and will probably misread it as Herbert, anyway). At the very least, it would make more sense to use a last name like Richard, which has a distinct difference between the Cajun and Anglo pronunciations. Smerdyakov911 (talk) 13:36, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I expect that "pecorn" was written by a non-rhotic dialect trying to demonstrate the "aw" sound (pee-KAHN) as opposed to the "ae" of "cat" (PEE-kan; I might be wrong on the stress).  Also, would "think" be "tink" (and "thing" be "ting")?  I've been reading Lackadaisy lately and the Cajun accent there replaces all the TH's with stops, but I've no idea how accurate it is (although the creator does an awful lot of research, so I tend to trust her work on the finer points).  You're right about the surnames. Kilyle (talk) 21:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation chart 

message: One section says that "cher(e)" is pronounced as expected, with the "eh" sound (to rhyme with "there"); another section says that it should be pronounced with the "a" of "apple", which frankly I have trouble even manufacturing before an R (we shift that vowel in the Pacific Northwest dialect; compare "cat" and "car"), and I would like a source if that's actually the way it's meant to be pronounced.
Also, I don't see a consonant chart, and I think at minimum, for those not familiar with French, it should be mentioned that "ch" makes the "sh" sound like "chef" or "paper mache" (the least common version of that combo in English, after CH/TSH and K/KH); seems to me that that would be the more useful info on the pronunciation of "cher". Kilyle (talk) 21:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting Pronunciation Info