Nah, this isn't thick for a cajun accent. Some cajun accents are so thick you can't really understand them. And that's from someone born and raised in Louisiana. :P lol
He sounds like some older cajun men. Accents vary from person to person. His isn't the thickest I've heard. More like the way he tells his story..that is reminisent.
I'm from Eunice, La. and I gotta say, I know alot of older people and even quite a few young ones who's accents are thicker than that.
When we were kids, our mawmaw and pawpaw used to speak Cajun French when they didn't want us to know what they were saying.
Mawmaw told us stories similar to what devilred 1971 mentioned about being punished for not speaking English. They used to whap 'em one on the knuckles when they slipped and spoke in French.
@wz3d My Family is from Eunice, Im a Manuel. My Grandpaw past away a few years ago. He played cajun music. His name was Shelton Manuel. I love my culture sha!
I'm from North Bay Ontario & it sounds just like up here. The cajuns sound a hell of a lot like French Canadians WHEN THEY SEAK ENGLISH. I'm not sure if their French is exactly the same.
Still think the example has some similarities with Western Irish (only a few hundred miles away from where I'm sitting, with a lot of immigrants from there all round me.) The French influence is obvious ( about the same in the other direction) but the inflection and meter embraces a commonality which may be an expression of land workers in many places.
@Wingandaprayeruk doesn't sound very Irish to me at all (Western or other), but I think we all have different experiences when it comes to accents, so we've all got our own perspectives on them. I don't doubt that you can hear similarities between this man's accent & Western Irish accents, but to me it sounds fairly Southern US with some kind of ye olde French influence.
@Wingandaprayeruk Actually, I think you're right about the land worker commonality. In my experience, apart from anything else, people fae rural areas in general often tend to speak more slowly than city folk.
when my maw-maw I.E.grandmother went to school back in the early1900's in avoyelles parish louisiana her first language was cajun french in school she was force to learn english and would be punished for speaking her native tongue!
no matter where you go all languages can have subtle or great differences within there accents or dialects... a special when a language would be more spoken around the world... i could have many influences from all over...
Who is this bdidly1 guy? I thought this vid was about the Cajun accent. I live in Northern California where they're not many Cajuns on my area but I enjoy listening to their Cajun accent, I watch swamp people which is a series about alligator fishing and way of life on the Louisiana Bayous. Wonderful people with strong ties to their history.
@cliffcox66 You just need to close your eyes and let your ears focus on the voices. If you really pay attention, you should be able to understand it. I'm from Louisiana so I can understandr it naturally, so I don't completely know if you will actually be able to understand it at all.
@VrtcllyChllnged i guess if the dialect is fast it would cause a problem for others who speak a slower dilect of english. Scottish English is pretty fast so I had no problems understanding. I even even flipped down the page to so i couldnt see him speak and it was fine
@VrtcllyChllnged Yeah, I see what you mean. The way I understand it is because I'm part Cajun. I would go to my Grandma's house and she and her husband are Cajun (but not living on the bayous kind).
I have to say there are many dialects from village-to-village in Britain. I lived in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales for a time and travelled around Britain and the difference from one area to another is amazing.
dat aint cajun. Believe me I kno da cajun accent. Dis sound americanized, we sound like frenchmen dat actually say da letta R with bookoo slang and pieces of french here an dere.
sounds like my grandfather, J. Bergeron from Berwick, may he rest in peace. that is indeed an OOOOLLLLDDDDD cajun accent. A lot of young ones, these days are losing theirs.
hey i have question, and i thought i would ask some good ole rednecks. i want to know if the swamp people in louisiana and florida considered hillbillies? whats the difference between a redneck and hillbilly????? thank you
@FullSwagSyceGame507 lots of difference, 1 we dont fuck our sisters, cousins or mamas. 2 we arent "rednecks" by any means, lets see what trailer park you came from asshole.... btw, we dont live in trailer parks either nor do we starve and beat our kids... we also dont fuck farm animals, nor do our kids live with roaches amonst dog or cat shit and piss, big differnce motherfucker...
@OctoroonToYou Creole, and to a lesser extent, Cajun, has a lot of French influences, which have become less pronounced and more "Americanized" with time.
If anyone here would like to see an excellently made dialect map of the US, check out this guy's website - it's the site I linked to this video from. Of course, we can't link websites from here, so just google search "aschmann dialect map" and click on the first link.
He uses data from Bill Labov's Atlas of North American English and even links to online PDFs of the entire book. Worth checking out for sure if you're a dialect nut.
If you want to hear a completely true cajun accent go watch these two videos: cajun talk: best. video. ever & spicy cajun accents....those are true cajun speaking people. Very very few young people know and can speak cajun.
This is cajun accent, but there are lots of people that have worse cajuns accents than this! I am from Louisiana and I have family that are cajun and tons of employees that are cajuns.
not even a hint of the french in there. and for as old as the video is ment to be... should be heavy heavy accent. if not totally french. in fact it should be totally french because the people whom are in their 60s and 70s now, their parents only spoke french. this is phony.
I have the new school cajun english accent. I don't sound exactly like him but I say words like dey (they), aks (ask), da (the), and dey (they). I didn't really notice until I went to college and I thought everyone spoke much different than me a few parishes (it's a called a county in all the other states) away.
The Cajun accent differs in different parts of Louisiana too. My dad was from a little town named Mansura, north of Opelousas and my mom was from the area around Elton and Basile. They're accents were similar, but still a little different. And here in Lake Charles, near the TX state line the accent is different too.
Englishdialects change every 50 miles? Try every 5! Check out "farmer wink" on youtube. He's from about 10 miles away from me in the same county and I'd have trouble understanding him!
My word. It took me a while to figure out exactly what was being said here. Once you get used to the rhythm it's a fantastic dialect to listen to though. There's a marvelous variety in American accents you just don't get in England. Pity.
English accents aren't diverse? In what universe? A Brummie accent is different from a Black Country accent is different from a Dudley accent. Then there's Cockney, which is different from a South London accent which is far different from Geordie is different from Yorkshire is different from Liverpool. Etc. As an American who's lived in England, I'd say English accents are just as, if not more, diverse than American ones.
@SyllaRa america is bigger than england by far.....a new york accent is different from a boston accent is different from washington dc accent is different from Georgia....is different from Florida...California.....is diff from Louisiana..and more! we have diff accents and colloquialisms etc, but why is it a competition?
@SyllaRa Here in American basically every state has their own variation of English. I love the Louisiana accent. It's so slow and graceful :) But your right Great Britain does have many variations as well. It's kind of like here; you can tell the wealth and class of people by their accent. It's very stereotypical but that's people do. An accent doesn't show your intelligence though :)
@GyMnaddict Theres so many variations, North Louisiana has a long drawn out Texan sound, Acadiana parishes we tak like dat ova derre on Barry's trot line, New Orleans is Italian and more round, it could go on and on lol.
@SyllaRa You're right - UK dialects are far more numerous than in the US - dialects in England are roughly as numerous as those in all the US, but there IS less relative variation here in the US because UK English has had 1000 more years of development there.
@SyllaRa English accents ARE more diverse than American ones. Whoever said they weren't didn't know a thing about the English language. Just in England alone (ruling out the rest of the UK) there are more different accents than the whole of the US, I think...
@ltgerbilmuffin -plus the fact we have 4 different countries&3 of those speak gealic,broddick etc-i think the yanks forget where most of there language comes from!im scots/irish&i can hear an irish &scots accent in some yank dialects!
@Bdiddly1 Ohh very intellectual. I suppose I could lower myself to your ignorant level but I won't. I am better then that and more mature. Are you friends with Vicki Pollard. Ha maybe they developed the character off of you. Do you know the writers? You certainly have the mouth and the attitude of a chav cow. Do you wear hoodies and hang out in front of the off licence? Or maybe you just hang out in the nightclubs dropping on your knees for any plonker who comes around? Get a life and a clue.
@Ashantay -fuck off back to where you came from you nigger cunt!&no,im not a chav,but i would rather be ANYTHING than 1 of you lot,so fuck off you silly immigrant cunt!&hows about i give you an address&u come say that to my face?cos iv got a small feeling im about to here every excuse under the sun why you wont/cant...so unless you have the bottle to back yourself up you are a non person in my book!
@Bdiddly1 Not worth the time to be honest but hey if it makes you feel better about yourself carry on. To let you know I am white AND British/American. I hold duel nationality now go scratch your head a bit and try to figure out what that is. As for trolling you are a racist and an ignorant biggot. Don't bother replying I won't any more but if it makes you feel better feel free to send the address.
@Ashantay -more mature!lol-so u call trolling youtube for spelling mistakes mature do you ashitye?fuck off back to where you came from you immigrant cunt!
@SyllaRa I would agree with you that perhaps regionally there are more accents, however simply as a function of mass there are more accents in america.
@Queenisgod Hmm, I dunno, I don't think variety of accents has much at all to do with how big the country is (I assume that's what you meant by mass?); it's been my experience that accents in the US have been more homogeneous than in the UK (and I've lived or traveled fairly extensively around both places!).
But it could well be you're right. I wonder if anyone's conducted a study into the matter...
@SyllaRa Since you're talking about it. Have you been to Philly? That city has too many accents. Come to Chicago, Where every neighborhood has an accent. We have over 300 million people living here and you think our accents are less diverse? You're watching too much television where everyone has to lose their regional accent so as to sound neutral for people watching. Thats the reason why a lot of people outside of the U.S. think we have the typical "American" accents.
@SyllaRa I think you're right. I come from Norway, which is a country with less than 5 million people in total. Yet, the variety of accents in our country is no less than what is found in England. I think the reason is that Norway is a vast country, so people have been living very isolated from eachothers, and so accents developed VERY differently, almost to the point of it being different languages. I'm from the east country, and there are western accent I don't understand properly.
@ksb78 My comment has precious little to do with the clip itself. My original comment was (I think, this was something like a year ago) in response to someone who claimed England/GB had a dearth of accents in comparison to the U.S.
I reiterate: I doubt there is a very strong correlation between how large a country is or how many people are in it (not to say there's none). Accents tend to be a product of isolation, no? Incidentally, what about my comment makes you think I am "outside" the U.S.?
The UK has more regional accents per square mile than the US. When I went to the UK, I heard a different accent in every city. Here, in the US, I could travel 2,000 miles east without hearing a different accent. In the UK, you travel 50 miles and hear a different accent.
ha bullshit for one people are packed tighter in england and for two I don't know where YOU live but if i travel 50 miles from Central New Jersey in any direction i'm finding a new accent wherever i go
@nrlsky That depends on what part of the U.S. you are in. The longer the place has been settled, the more closely packed the accents are. Most of the east coast and old south has a great deal of accent variation, having had as long as four hundred years, in some cases, to develop regional variation. Most of the western half of the U.S. was settled all at the same time, about 150 years ago, so naturally those places share the same accent. But it depends on where you are.
@nrlsky I'm from the south I can walk down the street and hear a different accent, every state in the south,every city and town in those states, and even certain sides of towns have different accents.You can't compare a Georgia accent to a Alabama accent or any southern accent to another they sound the same to outsiders, but to the people that speak in these accents they are very different.Maybe they have more accents than Americans outside of the south I'll say that but not more than us.
I have cajun cousins who sound kind of like this, and I also take guitar lessons down in Hammond where I see a lot of old people with this kind of accent a lot.
I'm quarter cajun myself and I wish I could learn french and have this accent. I've moved around a lot in my life and I've only been in Louisiana a couple of years now, but I've grown to love the culture here more than anywhere else I've been.
I drink when I'm thirsty and live till I die, that's an Irish song, The Moonshiner.
I'm a rambler I'm a gambler I'm a long way from home, and if you don't like me well leave me alone, I eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm dry, if moonshine don't kill me I'll live till I die.
Words like don't and throat are pronounced how they would be in most north english areas. Also how he says aligator. With a flat a. Shades of North English in there.
which Gambit? Movie, cartoon or comic? because all are a bit dramatized but eh, most things involving Cajuns in pop culture are romanticized. Take Justin Wilson for example
from x men origins? yeah he bearly has a southern accent to begin with, and he only used that "accent like a quarter of the movie. the one from the early 90s cartoon on fox sounds a bit more cajun though.
@Photoguy77 Well, I've attempted to do a Cajun accent, myself, and I must admit they're rather hard to do. But, the actor tried in the 90's cartoon. In Origins, though, Taylor Kitsch could have done a MUCH better job with that accent. I think if he ever reprises the role, he should watch some Justin Wilson and try and actually do a Cajun accent. What he did was hardly even Southern. =\
@Hillytroot Louisiana has "some" french roots? Not just Louisiana, more than a third of your country has French roots. And the last third has Spanish roots.
You don't like the French acent? Well, I don't like poor ignorant bastards like you who don't even know the history of their own country.
@Saruman38 your are "ignorant bastard" yourself to think everyone on here is from Louisiana or USA..this is NOT my country, so your comments about "more than a third" of my country having French roots and "the history of my country" are ridiculous. we dont have French roots in Russia, except for a bunch of French Eskimos in the North :) LOL oh you are from France, that explains a lot. dream on.
and there is nothing xenophobic about disliking English with French accent. I love France. now f off
I'm from Ireland and just stumbled upon this vid, I think some of the things he says sound Irish, not the accent, just the way he pronounces some words, like old man, throat, nose etc
I agree, the irish have a huge influence accent- wise. Many of our relatives are of Irish decent within the afro-american community in New Orleans, can't speak for everybody else but yeah. Jamaicans also, many say they speak British English but I hear more of the Irish dialect when I hear them speak.
He sounds alot like my Pawpaw. French was his first language, like alot of kids who grew up in south louisiana in the 20s and 30s. But school was taught in English only so he had to learn how to speak it, and the kids actually got punished for speaking French. I think i remember them saying something about that in this movie.
loveblue89: that is really true. it happened to mine as well. it was a source of shame and stigma and resulted in the next generation not being allowed to learn it. also it became a way for parents to converse privately. however they were able to relearn it in high school.
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TheRazorsEdge21 1 week ago
dat for sure dis guy ant nuttin like some dem down heer. ya heer me baby!
evannikki69 3 weeks ago
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pooydog12 1 month ago
FRENCH!!! NO ENGLISH CAJUNS!!! ENGLISH IS ENGLISH!!!
dljc1979 1 month ago
not French Cajun, might be old Spanish or English Cajun.
DaytonaRoadster 1 month ago
Naw I bleev dis ole boy is an actor tryna act like he's French.
bigloag1 1 month ago
You guys should hear Cajun Ebonics that the black people in New Orleans speak. That shit is REALLY hard to understand.
Pillowpants8495 1 month ago
I live in Quebec and he sounds like us speaking english.
toughcookie128 1 month ago 2
...Sometimes he has an accent, sometimes I don't hear anything different..
I'm from Ontario, Canada, if that makes a difference. =P
PolarRook 1 month ago
Nah, this isn't thick for a cajun accent. Some cajun accents are so thick you can't really understand them. And that's from someone born and raised in Louisiana. :P lol
atomaant 1 month ago
@atomaant I have a friend from South Louisiana that has an accent so thick he didn't even understand himself when he saw a video of him talking. lol
mrandmrshorn 1 month ago
Cajun accents are beautiful! I love Louisiana, especially New Orleans :o)
JoyousinJesus 2 months ago
i love being cajun <3
cherryberry52298 2 months ago
He sounds like some older cajun men. Accents vary from person to person. His isn't the thickest I've heard. More like the way he tells his story..that is reminisent.
MsChel79 2 months ago
That accent is closer to Irish than English and that verse he sings is from "The Wild Rover",a well known Irish song.
dabawallah 3 months ago
I'm from Eunice, La. and I gotta say, I know alot of older people and even quite a few young ones who's accents are thicker than that.
When we were kids, our mawmaw and pawpaw used to speak Cajun French when they didn't want us to know what they were saying.
Mawmaw told us stories similar to what devilred 1971 mentioned about being punished for not speaking English. They used to whap 'em one on the knuckles when they slipped and spoke in French.
wz3d 3 months ago
@wz3d My Family is from Eunice, Im a Manuel. My Grandpaw past away a few years ago. He played cajun music. His name was Shelton Manuel. I love my culture sha!
Hexen302 3 months ago
Gambit
satellite964 3 months ago
I'm from North Bay Ontario & it sounds just like up here. The cajuns sound a hell of a lot like French Canadians WHEN THEY SEAK ENGLISH. I'm not sure if their French is exactly the same.
treblejunkie 3 months ago
Mamou la. This is exactly what we all sound like lol
rmarc11 5 months ago
American, with a hint of french!
BOT101st 5 months ago
American, with a hint of french!
BOT101st 5 months ago 2
It looks like a typical 1940's contrieved film. He doesn't sound like he's from Acadiana at all.
bthor76 5 months ago
@bthor76; Well, Wikipedia says that he was a native cajun. Take that for what it's worth, I guess.
PadraikKasier 4 months ago
Still think the example has some similarities with Western Irish (only a few hundred miles away from where I'm sitting, with a lot of immigrants from there all round me.) The French influence is obvious ( about the same in the other direction) but the inflection and meter embraces a commonality which may be an expression of land workers in many places.
Wingandaprayeruk 6 months ago
@Wingandaprayeruk : Eh?
treblejunkie 3 months ago
@Wingandaprayeruk doesn't sound very Irish to me at all (Western or other), but I think we all have different experiences when it comes to accents, so we've all got our own perspectives on them. I don't doubt that you can hear similarities between this man's accent & Western Irish accents, but to me it sounds fairly Southern US with some kind of ye olde French influence.
robsargent4 3 months ago
@Wingandaprayeruk Actually, I think you're right about the land worker commonality. In my experience, apart from anything else, people fae rural areas in general often tend to speak more slowly than city folk.
robsargent4 3 months ago
Not English, sounds more like western Irish, but it isn't. Part of our rich tapestry.
Wingandaprayeruk 6 months ago
@Wingandaprayeruk He doesn't sound a bit like someone from Western Ireland.
peadarrock12 6 months ago
doesnt sound special
aldobenitezsosa 7 months ago
i love southern accents and history, can't wait to visite the US of A.
Keep the culture alive!
BehelitOutlaw 8 months ago 18
@BehelitOutlaw a "southern" accent are different from a "cajun" accent
TaylorAZ14 3 months ago
@BehelitOutlaw If you love the South you should move here, we need more boyz that don't take too kindly to the child molesters in the airports.
xxxxAXIxxxx 2 months ago
@BehelitOutlaw What's wrong with Belgium?
dietrite123 1 month ago
when my maw-maw I.E.grandmother went to school back in the early1900's in avoyelles parish louisiana her first language was cajun french in school she was force to learn english and would be punished for speaking her native tongue!
devilred1971 9 months ago 12
Im inclined to agree with SyllaRa ...
no matter where you go all languages can have subtle or great differences within there accents or dialects... a special when a language would be more spoken around the world... i could have many influences from all over...
JaydonTWhistler 10 months ago
Who is this bdidly1 guy? I thought this vid was about the Cajun accent. I live in Northern California where they're not many Cajuns on my area but I enjoy listening to their Cajun accent, I watch swamp people which is a series about alligator fishing and way of life on the Louisiana Bayous. Wonderful people with strong ties to their history.
philly4458 10 months ago
@markislive but another video shows him speaking cajun french
The20473as 11 months ago
My goodness, It's barely intelligible. Thank you for the fascinating video on primitive American life
cliffcox66 1 year ago
@cliffcox66 You just need to close your eyes and let your ears focus on the voices. If you really pay attention, you should be able to understand it. I'm from Louisiana so I can understandr it naturally, so I don't completely know if you will actually be able to understand it at all.
VrtcllyChllnged 1 year ago
@VrtcllyChllnged its not that hard im scottish and have no problem in understanding this accent
seonidh 1 year ago
@seonidh That's awesome!
VrtcllyChllnged 1 year ago
@VrtcllyChllnged i guess if the dialect is fast it would cause a problem for others who speak a slower dilect of english. Scottish English is pretty fast so I had no problems understanding. I even even flipped down the page to so i couldnt see him speak and it was fine
seonidh 1 year ago
@VrtcllyChllnged Yeah, I see what you mean. The way I understand it is because I'm part Cajun. I would go to my Grandma's house and she and her husband are Cajun (but not living on the bayous kind).
VrtcllyChllnged 1 year ago
I have to say there are many dialects from village-to-village in Britain. I lived in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales for a time and travelled around Britain and the difference from one area to another is amazing.
nInAg114 1 year ago
wow that brings me way back to that good talk. I miss those days where everything said in the house was Cajun....bon temps.
msNativegal 1 year ago
he sounds kind of native
hamburg833 1 year ago
This is what i sound like lol
weightlifter93 1 year ago
je suis de louisiana et cet homme ne parle pas avec l'accent cajun. C'est trop americain. lol funny.
CPenn5 1 year ago
That sounded like my Grandpa from Oklahoma trying to immitate a Cajun accent.
K9Negative 1 year ago
dat aint cajun. Believe me I kno da cajun accent. Dis sound americanized, we sound like frenchmen dat actually say da letta R with bookoo slang and pieces of french here an dere.
ssjakuma 1 year ago
I'm from AZ, and I am not Cajun by any means. But my last name is French and sometimes I just think I would like it down in Louisiana.
IAMtheNewWorldOrder 1 year ago
If you want to hear a really thick Cajun accent, watch Waterboy. There's a character in the movie that's impossible to understand
TheLinguistable 1 year ago 2
Mai naim ee Raymon', bot chyew ca' zhust cawll me RAY. :D
-Princess and the Frog
haksiel 1 year ago 2
Lmao luvin the accents
chsn09 1 year ago
last of a dying breed, becoming extinct, SAVE THE CAJUNS!
VercingetorixXIII 1 year ago
dont think this is left anymore, became rare in the 70s and pretty much extinct in the 80s, beautiful accent, non like it on earth....
VercingetorixXIII 1 year ago
sounds like my grandfather, J. Bergeron from Berwick, may he rest in peace. that is indeed an OOOOLLLLDDDDD cajun accent. A lot of young ones, these days are losing theirs.
tele65 1 year ago
hey i have question, and i thought i would ask some good ole rednecks. i want to know if the swamp people in louisiana and florida considered hillbillies? whats the difference between a redneck and hillbilly????? thank you
FullSwagSyceGame507 1 year ago
@FullSwagSyceGame507 lots of difference, 1 we dont fuck our sisters, cousins or mamas. 2 we arent "rednecks" by any means, lets see what trailer park you came from asshole.... btw, we dont live in trailer parks either nor do we starve and beat our kids... we also dont fuck farm animals, nor do our kids live with roaches amonst dog or cat shit and piss, big differnce motherfucker...
VercingetorixXIII 1 year ago
The description says young cajuns now have a more "Americanized" accent.... Cajun IS American.
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
@OctoroonToYou Creole, and to a lesser extent, Cajun, has a lot of French influences, which have become less pronounced and more "Americanized" with time.
EmperorofCartoons 1 year ago
If anyone here would like to see an excellently made dialect map of the US, check out this guy's website - it's the site I linked to this video from. Of course, we can't link websites from here, so just google search "aschmann dialect map" and click on the first link.
He uses data from Bill Labov's Atlas of North American English and even links to online PDFs of the entire book. Worth checking out for sure if you're a dialect nut.
Suolperos 1 year ago
c'mon up to richibucto or buctouche you wanna hear de accent
bgmckable 1 year ago
If you want to hear a completely true cajun accent go watch these two videos: cajun talk: best. video. ever & spicy cajun accents....those are true cajun speaking people. Very very few young people know and can speak cajun.
shell79yve 1 year ago
This is cajun accent, but there are lots of people that have worse cajuns accents than this! I am from Louisiana and I have family that are cajun and tons of employees that are cajuns.
shell79yve 1 year ago
not a true cajun.
Stikznstemz 1 year ago
not even a hint of the french in there. and for as old as the video is ment to be... should be heavy heavy accent. if not totally french. in fact it should be totally french because the people whom are in their 60s and 70s now, their parents only spoke french. this is phony.
Stikznstemz 1 year ago
@Stikznstemz u don't know jack shit.... thats a frickin cajun dumb ass
13lael 1 year ago
@13lael not hardly.
Stikznstemz 1 year ago
@Stikznstemz clueless !
13lael 1 year ago
Love It!
Aeschylus 1 year ago
My grandmother is from upstate... Monroe but she has that thick ass LA accent too :-)
gshunw 1 year ago
sounds like a country accent lol probly where they got their accent from
DBadomJR 2 years ago
I LOVE MY HOME STATE LOUISIANA
kyle12083 2 years ago 21
Speak Cajun that will be better.
killerguitar44 2 years ago 4
@kyle12083 Miss it too... luv ya...
VercingetorixXIII 1 year ago
@kyle12083 Katrina didnt
dennisrayso 6 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
no one gives a fuck about your grandma, except my cousins who enjoys beasteality
Tippdamann1 2 years ago
My grand parents spoke like this now my mom has lost most of her accent still has some left.
CajunKlingon 2 years ago
xD My dad's family all talks like this.
katiekannibal23 2 years ago
lucky you. big hello from croatia
fmirosa 2 years ago
my mawmaw talks like that.her first language was cajun french or somethin and she didn't know english till she was 8 or so.i don't really remember
sushixproducts 2 years ago
he sounds like my papow i miss him rip papa...
lesreyrey 2 years ago 12
rene from trube blood have cajun accent.
love it.
devilishdeeea 2 years ago
And its crap...
katiekannibal23 2 years ago
I have the new school cajun english accent. I don't sound exactly like him but I say words like dey (they), aks (ask), da (the), and dey (they). I didn't really notice until I went to college and I thought everyone spoke much different than me a few parishes (it's a called a county in all the other states) away.
geowhit88 2 years ago
I meant ...dem (them)
geowhit88 2 years ago
The Cajun accent differs in different parts of Louisiana too. My dad was from a little town named Mansura, north of Opelousas and my mom was from the area around Elton and Basile. They're accents were similar, but still a little different. And here in Lake Charles, near the TX state line the accent is different too.
ridgerunner72160 2 years ago
almost reminds me of the south african accent.
jasminelefleur 2 years ago
then clearly you don't have a whole lot of exposure to the accent then
irishgodfatherchris 2 years ago
i'm from erath louisiana as cajun as it gets- this sounds like the real deal
sliznim 2 years ago
Englishdialects change every 50 miles? Try every 5! Check out "farmer wink" on youtube. He's from about 10 miles away from me in the same county and I'd have trouble understanding him!
YellerbellyMac1983 2 years ago
What a glorious accent, sometimes it sounds French but sometimes breaks into north country English like with the ' throat and the nose ' bit.
Roseburg93 2 years ago 3
My word. It took me a while to figure out exactly what was being said here. Once you get used to the rhythm it's a fantastic dialect to listen to though. There's a marvelous variety in American accents you just don't get in England. Pity.
Shadowsi 2 years ago
English accents aren't diverse? In what universe? A Brummie accent is different from a Black Country accent is different from a Dudley accent. Then there's Cockney, which is different from a South London accent which is far different from Geordie is different from Yorkshire is different from Liverpool. Etc. As an American who's lived in England, I'd say English accents are just as, if not more, diverse than American ones.
SyllaRa 2 years ago 59
@SyllaRa yeah i wouldn't be suprised if there was more british accents than american ones
williestratton 1 year ago
@SyllaRa america is bigger than england by far.....a new york accent is different from a boston accent is different from washington dc accent is different from Georgia....is different from Florida...California.....is diff from Louisiana..and more! we have diff accents and colloquialisms etc, but why is it a competition?
CamilaRox11 1 year ago
@SyllaRa Here in American basically every state has their own variation of English. I love the Louisiana accent. It's so slow and graceful :) But your right Great Britain does have many variations as well. It's kind of like here; you can tell the wealth and class of people by their accent. It's very stereotypical but that's people do. An accent doesn't show your intelligence though :)
GyMnaddict 1 year ago
@GyMnaddict What you say is very true but there's nothing like a Glaswegian accent ;-)
bloobear1 1 year ago
@GyMnaddict Theres so many variations, North Louisiana has a long drawn out Texan sound, Acadiana parishes we tak like dat ova derre on Barry's trot line, New Orleans is Italian and more round, it could go on and on lol.
cjleger337 1 year ago
@SyllaRa You're right - UK dialects are far more numerous than in the US - dialects in England are roughly as numerous as those in all the US, but there IS less relative variation here in the US because UK English has had 1000 more years of development there.
Suolperos 1 year ago
@SyllaRa yea id say that, jordie is fuckin incomprehensible.
shittyfagg 1 year ago
@SyllaRa English accents ARE more diverse than American ones. Whoever said they weren't didn't know a thing about the English language. Just in England alone (ruling out the rest of the UK) there are more different accents than the whole of the US, I think...
ltgerbilmuffin 1 year ago
@ltgerbilmuffin -plus the fact we have 4 different countries&3 of those speak gealic,broddick etc-i think the yanks forget where most of there language comes from!im scots/irish&i can hear an irish &scots accent in some yank dialects!
Bdiddly1 1 year ago
@Bdiddly1 Maybe we have maybe we haven't but at least we know the difference between their and there :p
Ashantay 1 year ago
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Bdiddly1 1 year ago
@Ashantay -stupid cunt!im british! you ignorant cunt!
Bdiddly1 1 year ago
@Bdiddly1 Ohh very intellectual. I suppose I could lower myself to your ignorant level but I won't. I am better then that and more mature. Are you friends with Vicki Pollard. Ha maybe they developed the character off of you. Do you know the writers? You certainly have the mouth and the attitude of a chav cow. Do you wear hoodies and hang out in front of the off licence? Or maybe you just hang out in the nightclubs dropping on your knees for any plonker who comes around? Get a life and a clue.
Ashantay 1 year ago
@Ashantay -fuck off back to where you came from you nigger cunt!&no,im not a chav,but i would rather be ANYTHING than 1 of you lot,so fuck off you silly immigrant cunt!&hows about i give you an address&u come say that to my face?cos iv got a small feeling im about to here every excuse under the sun why you wont/cant...so unless you have the bottle to back yourself up you are a non person in my book!
Bdiddly1 1 year ago
@Bdiddly1 Not worth the time to be honest but hey if it makes you feel better about yourself carry on. To let you know I am white AND British/American. I hold duel nationality now go scratch your head a bit and try to figure out what that is. As for trolling you are a racist and an ignorant biggot. Don't bother replying I won't any more but if it makes you feel better feel free to send the address.
Ashantay 1 year ago
@Ashantay -more mature!lol-so u call trolling youtube for spelling mistakes mature do you ashitye?fuck off back to where you came from you immigrant cunt!
Bdiddly1 1 year ago
@SyllaRa I would agree with you that perhaps regionally there are more accents, however simply as a function of mass there are more accents in america.
Queenisgod 10 months ago
@Queenisgod Hmm, I dunno, I don't think variety of accents has much at all to do with how big the country is (I assume that's what you meant by mass?); it's been my experience that accents in the US have been more homogeneous than in the UK (and I've lived or traveled fairly extensively around both places!).
But it could well be you're right. I wonder if anyone's conducted a study into the matter...
SyllaRa 10 months ago
@SyllaRa Since you're talking about it. Have you been to Philly? That city has too many accents. Come to Chicago, Where every neighborhood has an accent. We have over 300 million people living here and you think our accents are less diverse? You're watching too much television where everyone has to lose their regional accent so as to sound neutral for people watching. Thats the reason why a lot of people outside of the U.S. think we have the typical "American" accents.
ksb78 10 months ago
@SyllaRa I think you're right. I come from Norway, which is a country with less than 5 million people in total. Yet, the variety of accents in our country is no less than what is found in England. I think the reason is that Norway is a vast country, so people have been living very isolated from eachothers, and so accents developed VERY differently, almost to the point of it being different languages. I'm from the east country, and there are western accent I don't understand properly.
MsSarjen 7 months ago
@SyllaRa What does that have to do with this clip?????
ksb78 10 months ago
@ksb78 My comment has precious little to do with the clip itself. My original comment was (I think, this was something like a year ago) in response to someone who claimed England/GB had a dearth of accents in comparison to the U.S.
I reiterate: I doubt there is a very strong correlation between how large a country is or how many people are in it (not to say there's none). Accents tend to be a product of isolation, no? Incidentally, what about my comment makes you think I am "outside" the U.S.?
SyllaRa 10 months ago
The UK has more regional accents per square mile than the US. When I went to the UK, I heard a different accent in every city. Here, in the US, I could travel 2,000 miles east without hearing a different accent. In the UK, you travel 50 miles and hear a different accent.
nrlsky 2 years ago 8
Same in France
woglakapi 2 years ago 3
ha bullshit for one people are packed tighter in england and for two I don't know where YOU live but if i travel 50 miles from Central New Jersey in any direction i'm finding a new accent wherever i go
smoekdacheeb 2 years ago
@nrlsky That depends on what part of the U.S. you are in. The longer the place has been settled, the more closely packed the accents are. Most of the east coast and old south has a great deal of accent variation, having had as long as four hundred years, in some cases, to develop regional variation. Most of the western half of the U.S. was settled all at the same time, about 150 years ago, so naturally those places share the same accent. But it depends on where you are.
sanddollarscholar 2 years ago 3
@nrlsky I'm from the south I can walk down the street and hear a different accent, every state in the south,every city and town in those states, and even certain sides of towns have different accents.You can't compare a Georgia accent to a Alabama accent or any southern accent to another they sound the same to outsiders, but to the people that speak in these accents they are very different.Maybe they have more accents than Americans outside of the south I'll say that but not more than us.
mmawilldesha 9 months ago 2
I have cajun cousins who sound kind of like this, and I also take guitar lessons down in Hammond where I see a lot of old people with this kind of accent a lot.
I'm quarter cajun myself and I wish I could learn french and have this accent. I've moved around a lot in my life and I've only been in Louisiana a couple of years now, but I've grown to love the culture here more than anywhere else I've been.
evilmick66 2 years ago
I drink when I'm thirsty and live till I die, that's an Irish song, The Moonshiner.
I'm a rambler I'm a gambler I'm a long way from home, and if you don't like me well leave me alone, I eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm dry, if moonshine don't kill me I'll live till I die.
yugandali 2 years ago
Words like don't and throat are pronounced how they would be in most north english areas. Also how he says aligator. With a flat a. Shades of North English in there.
Nadendegior 2 years ago
Cajun comes from French fella, nothing to do with a nordie english accent.
fuckapotomis 2 years ago 6
"I like ta died." ... haven't heard that one in a while lol
brainburrito 2 years ago
LOL!!! Yes indeed!!!
shiggadee 2 years ago
i barely understand lol
veronicachic 2 years ago
sound good the acent, very sage.
ElAmanuensis 2 years ago
gambit talks like cajun :P
LeonMeekis84 2 years ago 7
Im from Lafayette, LA and Im telling you Gambit sounds NOTHING like a Cajun...bottom line.
Photoguy77 2 years ago 42
which Gambit? Movie, cartoon or comic? because all are a bit dramatized but eh, most things involving Cajuns in pop culture are romanticized. Take Justin Wilson for example
SARAHH213 2 years ago
from x men origins? yeah he bearly has a southern accent to begin with, and he only used that "accent like a quarter of the movie. the one from the early 90s cartoon on fox sounds a bit more cajun though.
RSOLANO2 2 years ago
@Photoguy77
Gambit sounds like a mexican
PS
Im from Carencro
RottenTreat 1 year ago
@Photoguy77 u dont know jack shit.... thats a cajun
13lael 1 year ago
@Photoguy77 The same guy is in the french video dipshit
13lael 1 year ago
@Photoguy77 which one: the one in the Wolverine movie, or the one from the 90's X-Men cartoon?
wildside316 1 year ago
@Photoguy77 Well, I've attempted to do a Cajun accent, myself, and I must admit they're rather hard to do. But, the actor tried in the 90's cartoon. In Origins, though, Taylor Kitsch could have done a MUCH better job with that accent. I think if he ever reprises the role, he should watch some Justin Wilson and try and actually do a Cajun accent. What he did was hardly even Southern. =\
samurai0rezurii 1 year ago
@Photoguy77 hes sounds more like a punch drunk boxer hahaha.
cjleger337 1 year ago
@Photoguy77
I grew up in Lake Charles, LA and he kinda sounds Cajun.
BigolePappy2 1 year ago
@BigolePappy2 Well thats because your from LakeCharles..Youmight as well be from Texas if you think this guy sounds Cajun. Its very modeled.
cjleger337 1 year ago
@Photoguy77 im from gueydan,la and you right
tonyamb2185 1 year ago
BOO yaya, ey-EE, a ga-ron-TEE. no acadian can negate this stereotype!
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
bato2 haha even cheech was joking about how mexicans take spanish so they can get a b! lololol!
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
i do! i don't even know french. but my dad and other ancesters speak it fluently.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
wow this sounds exactly how my dad talks.... ahh, love Louisiana... <3
momonigiri87 2 years ago
So the younger or more Americanized...yet this man speaks clearer than any Cajun I've ever met, which would include MY FUCKING RELATIVES YOU BASTARD.
Just joking, but really, their accent is way more thick in person.
SeanyPancakes 2 years ago
yeah you right, reminds me of home Slidell La. Been long time. Poor New Orleans and parts of Slidell still tore up from Katrina . It's a dam shame
number1son2 2 years ago
That's because he's cajun! Genius!
00JakeR00 2 years ago
*sigh* Just like home!
DancingShulammite 2 years ago
hmm I expected French accent which I dont like -they say Louisiana has some French roots..now I am puzzled.
Hillytroot 2 years ago
@Hillytroot Louisiana has "some" french roots? Not just Louisiana, more than a third of your country has French roots. And the last third has Spanish roots.
You don't like the French acent? Well, I don't like poor ignorant bastards like you who don't even know the history of their own country.
Saruman38 10 months ago
@Saruman38 your are "ignorant bastard" yourself to think everyone on here is from Louisiana or USA..this is NOT my country, so your comments about "more than a third" of my country having French roots and "the history of my country" are ridiculous. we dont have French roots in Russia, except for a bunch of French Eskimos in the North :) LOL oh you are from France, that explains a lot. dream on.
and there is nothing xenophobic about disliking English with French accent. I love France. now f off
Hillytroot 10 months ago
@Saruman38 I have to agree with Saruman38 ,you do know your history!!
ca25yrs 10 months ago
I'm from Ireland and just stumbled upon this vid, I think some of the things he says sound Irish, not the accent, just the way he pronounces some words, like old man, throat, nose etc
It's a nice accent
DesertEagle404 3 years ago 3
I agree, the irish have a huge influence accent- wise. Many of our relatives are of Irish decent within the afro-american community in New Orleans, can't speak for everybody else but yeah. Jamaicans also, many say they speak British English but I hear more of the Irish dialect when I hear them speak.
trevycoley83 3 years ago
My JROTC commander is Cajun. He didn't speak English until he was six.
SRone45 2 years ago 2
nice accent, like most of our professors on university have. Its nice to listen, but if you dont focus on words, you get nothing out of it.
madworldlover 3 years ago
This accent is not English, its French. The redneck accents are more in Alabama, Georgia.
Jayce222 3 years ago
He sounds alot like my Pawpaw. French was his first language, like alot of kids who grew up in south louisiana in the 20s and 30s. But school was taught in English only so he had to learn how to speak it, and the kids actually got punished for speaking French. I think i remember them saying something about that in this movie.
loveblue89 3 years ago
loveblue89: that is really true. it happened to mine as well. it was a source of shame and stigma and resulted in the next generation not being allowed to learn it. also it became a way for parents to converse privately. however they were able to relearn it in high school.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
this is my grandpa all the way
blamblaw 3 years ago
this just seems like an old movie somehow.
oran6es 3 years ago
Goodness...it's amazing how accents vary from state to state...this is the most interesting accent to me (well, second to Wisconsin)...
Re86du 3 years ago
his accent reminds me of my grandmother.
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camaleao555 3 years ago
I luv this accent.
junglefunckysoul 3 years ago 7