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Why Do People in New Orleans Talk That Way?
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| 9/8/2005
| Jesse Sheidlower
Posted on 09/10/2005 12:46:45 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates
Why do people in New Orleans talk that way?Evidentally they do it to give people who obviously have nothing better to do with their lives some fodder for mindless topics to expound on.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:00:49 PM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(Stupid people make my brain sad.)
To: daybreakcoming
Yes, I agree with you. Touchy, touchy! I lived in N.O. and also noticed the accent sounded similar to the ones in the Northeast. I was told that a lot of fishermen from that area migrated to Louisiana, thus the intermingling of southern, Cajun, and New England.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:01:17 PM PDT
by
rightazrain
(Uh-til-uh's twin sister)
To: Mike Bates
Think, James Carville. It is the strangest accent in America. I like it!
To: Dick Vomer
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:01:26 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
To: Mike Bates
Thanks for the interesting article. I'm going to forward it to my father-in-law who has an old-school "Neu'awlians" accent. If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might enjoy the book "Frenchmen Desire Goodchildren" by John Chase.
To: fullchroma
Think, James Carville. It is the strangest accent in America.And all this time I thought he talked that way because he was raised next to a nuclear waste site.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:02:28 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: Mike Bates
It's an identity thing, isn't it? I like the NO/Cajun accent ... I think it sounds cool ... except when it's coming from James %*#&ing Car-vile!!
To: Mike Bates
There was a big Irish immigrant population.
Anne Rice has written about this.
So9
To: airborne; daybreakcoming
Sorry, Post #22 was meant for airborne.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:03:21 PM PDT
by
rightazrain
(Uh-til-uh's twin sister)
To: Mike Bates
There was quite a bit of Italian immigration into New Orleans in the 19th century.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:03:54 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: Texasforever
The Cajun accent does sound a lot like Brooklyn. Yea there one NO accent thats very Edith Bunker ...I'm not sure that necessarily a Cajun accent... they seem to have quite a few different one's down there
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:02 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(This bulletin just in:"Chinese's Fire Drill's" will now be known as "New Orleans' Hurricane Drill's")
To: Mike Bates
There are actually 6 accents in the NO area.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:04 PM PDT
by
sgtyork
To: Mike Bates
No. But that's why he looks the way he does. No explanation for the way he thinks, tho.
To: Servant of the 9
And it's more akin to a Boston Southie sound than to Brooklyn.
So9
To: ShadowDancer
Evidentally they do it to give people who obviously have nothing better to do with their lives some fodder for mindless topics to expound on.And yet here you are stopping by to expound. LOL @ U
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:19 PM PDT
by
daybreakcoming
(May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
To: GarySpFc
He also said, " Give us what we effing deseve."
Cut my donation right in half.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:50 PM PDT
by
mercy
(never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
To: airborne
And since 80 % of New Orleans is black, one might conclude that it is, in fact, racist.
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Actually, when it comes to blacks, they speak many different accents ranging from the 19th century southern black-speak, still in heavy presence in most inner-city areas, to highly polished, proper English, both in dialect and content.
So saying what the article did, is not really racist because there is no SPECIFIC WAY THAT BLACKS TALK. They are as diverse as whites, and far more diverse than Hispanics.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:51 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: manwiththehands
Corporal Cueball sounds better like this:
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:55 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: GarySpFc
I just heard one man on the Fox News say, "We want $20,000 f#@king now."
I saw that too...FOX is now three-for-three in that department; obviously no delay in use with these little interviews.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:05:44 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Cindy, ya shoulda stuck with "offshore drilling" as your cause)
To: All
The Brooklyn accent which you do hear in New Orleans talk was explained to me. It had been a question that lingered in my head for a decade after meeting a guy who I thought surely was a New Yorker but to my surprise he told me he was from N.O.
It has to do with the spread of a desease in New Orleans long ago. Perhaps early 1900s...the desease slips my mind but I'm sure a lot of you feepers know what I'm talking about. If not small pox it was something similar. Well, it killed off many people including much of the leadership in the Catholic Church so the Catholic Church imported much of its leadership, including nuns, catholic school teachers...etc. So, the accent caught on.
And that's how the Brooklyn accent came to New Orleans.
Strange, I saw nothing about this in this article.
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posted on
09/10/2005 1:06:12 PM PDT
by
MaineVoter2002
(http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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