classic06

lol, well, I'm actually from south Louisiana, and am about as cajun as you can get. One of the main things about the way we speak is the speed. It's not that we have poor grammar. We tend to speak really fast, so words get jumbled. Example: "What are you doing?" turns into "Whatcha doin'?" and we do use french every now and then, but it's not proper french. you won't here anybody using the term "monsieur" although, there is a heck of a lot of "yes ma'ams" and "no ma'ams". cajuns do pride themselves on being very polite. "chare" is actually spelled "cher" and that tends to be reserved for someone you know very well, sort of like a pet name. "mes cher." if you're really wanting to use french in there, the most common terms used would be "C'est bon" meaning it's good, usually used when describing food of some sorts. "Comment ca va?" which would be "how are you?" the proper response being "Ca va bien, et toi?" meaning "I'm good, and you?" a lot of the words though, are just kinda thrown in there without realizing, like "Frissons" which is like if something gives you the chills, it gives you the frissons. or "Couyon" which is someone who is kinda like calling someone a dork or whatever. "Canneye" is when someone is kinda innocently bad, like a lot of times a little boy who is always managing to get into trouble would be called canneye. lol, and um, whether we know a person or not, it all comes out the same. people down here are extremely friendly and open, they don't worry about speaking 'correct' english with some they've just met. people down here are who they are, definitely a lot of pride, and they don't apologize for that. and i'm not picking on the above post or anything. just trying to help. but don't drop the plurals. this probably doesn't help at all, lol, but that's my cajun lesson for today. lol, so i just asked a couple of my friends to say the lines, and the two lines would actually be: "Welcome to Louisiana, Mr. Shore," she said in a thick cajun accent. "You had a good trip?" (could also be 'D'joo have a good trip?' but there's no proper way to spell did and you together, lol, or 'how d'jour trip go?' did almost always gets shortened to just a 'd' and a 'd' combined with a 'y' makes a j sound. again, it's hard to write how we say it.) "Here ya go," she said, opening the door. "I know we've got a hard day ahead of us, but maybe you'd like to have a little fun before you get some sleep?"