02.27.05
Cajun, I Guarantee
I just bought A Great and Noble Scheme, “the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes,” so I’ll offer a few Cajun links (and one for Creole):
- Cajun French-English Glossary at LSU
- Action Cadienne, a volunteer organization dedicated to preserving Cajun culture and Louisiana French
- Some phrases on a page with a really … interesting … design scheme
- Several links at Clarence’s Guide to the Cajun French Language
- Useful books are Father Daigle’s A Dictionary of the Cajun Language and Cajun Self-Taught
- Kreyol Lwiziyen
On an unrelated note, I also purchased Madame De Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford, a biography of Louis XV’s mistress. It really doesn’t have anything to do with languages, at least as far as I’ve read, but it does mention le Comte de Saint Germain, a very … interesting … man from the eighteenth century. Among his other accomplishments, he was reputed to speak all the languages of Europe, though I haven’t tracked down the original evidence for that assertion. Some people think he’s still around. What’s two centuires if you were old when you met Jesus?