I like how we're all just totally ignoring that apparently this man's dog and wife just got blown away/drowned and only her pants are left behind, and he doesn't know if his insurance covers this sort of thing...
@treblejunkie Cajun's are the descendents of Acadiens expelled by the Brits from the Maritimes, so the accent is different but related. Cajun's are related to French Canadians.
I have an example as well. A girl from England, a girl from New York, and myself were all talking on ventrilo. To my ears, the New York girl and myself sounded exactly the same, but the English lady said right away that I had more of a "california" accent, AKA the kind you always hear in Hollywood movies. Its sad because everyone around here assumes they have no accent...but that makes absolutely no sense if you think about it.
@WhoIsBaz lol..yeah i have a friend whos from the UK..i luv her accent and she says i sound really different..but thats like everyone else here in the US xD just depends on where ur from if u sound like u have an accent x3
omg...so this is what I sound like when I speak!!!! Im born and raised in Acadiana. My mom is from virginia and when we go to visit her family, they have no clue what im talking about half the time! This explains why
LOL! This is so interesting. I was born and raised in Louisiana (still there now) and I had never given a second thought about our accent until I went to Las Vegas with some family a year or two ago and we asked a guy where was the tour bus. He looked like 'huh?' and we repeated it and he went 'oh, the tour bus'. To me it sounded like he pronounced 'tour' the same way we did but I guess not.
I wish i had a cajun accent, but im more than happy with my southern draw lol. not exactley the most intelligent sounding one in the world, but still i like it
I am a blue-bellied Yankee from IL, but I married me an authentic Red-necked Coonass from Houma, LA. We have been married for 18 years and are quite happy. Whenever we watch Swamp People, it's funny 'cause they have to put subtitles. We understand, just fine! LOL!
@MiJacFan1 I'm a Cajun from Lake Charles, but my girlfriend is from North Carolina. She's not a yankee, but she still has trouble understanding us in south Louisiana. And she can't understand why everything that should end in 'o', is spelled 'eau' or 'eaux'.
I have no idea what was said.I`m not being ignorant because i`m not making fun of anything here.I seen people mention that this accent is dying.Well i hope not because to me a tradition is dying and we can`t all be what everybody else is.Ethnicity is so important now especially in America.
in my middle school there was a cajun boy who spoke a pretty deep cajun accent. Even spoke some french, so like everyone in schoo l would be like wtf is this hill billy saying, i always thought it was pretty cool
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
That was fucking brilliant.... coming from a Brit in the West Country. Go watch 'Hot Fuzz' if you want to know what I sound like :p
I read a novel where a woman on the bomb squad in LA was highly infatuated with her work partner, who had a Cajun accent (this made him all the more lovable, apparently). I've been dying to know what it sounds like :)
@spikedurden - not everyone in a particular place has that particular accent, though. I have lived in South Louisiana and for whatever reason do not have *any* of the many Louisiana accents, to the point that it gets commented on all the time and people sometimes ask me where I'm from. Accents are becoming more and more standardized due to television and radio, and the idea that regional accents are somehow undesirable in the workplace. If I'm not making a conscious effort, I speak 'American TV'
im cajun french :D very fun accent, we have. but its annoying as crapc ause people always say "OH SAY THIS, AND OH SAY THAT" like really? ignorant. and i say ma-cher. Easieerrr
Now my Minnesota accent isn't quite as interesting, but I know what you mean about people asking you to say things all the time. And then they snicker because I say it "funny".
No offence ment to anyone. . .Lolz. But when I used to watch True Blood, I never thought Rene was Cajun. . .I always just thought he was slow . . .O.o But thats just me, I kinda think that people with REALLLYYY strong Cajun accents 'sound' 'slow'. . Not are slow just sound it. I mean I can never understand what there saying. . .
I mean cajuns come off as very slow people. I dont have the accent because i was raised with my mothers side of the family and but my grandfather has a very thick accent. Its hard to understand.
cajuns are the descendants of the french-speaking acadians who came to america from canada. creoles are the descendants of the folks who were french and spanish.
This man is from a very rural area in Acadiana, either Henderson/Cecelia, St Martinville, Broussard, Carencro, somewhere rural and definately within Acadiana area
You do have an accent, no matter where you are from you have an accent. Any person speaking any language has some form of accent. Tell me where you're from and I'll tell you what accent you have. Travel to the opposite end of whatever country you live in and I guarantee people will notice you speak differently. For example, I'm from southern California originally and my mid-west relatives comment on my west coast accent all the time. They don't think they have an accent, but to me they do
was irigina;;y born in New Orleans, but then moved to TX, now vack in LA. But everyone says i have like no accent. XD in TX they said i sounded no different than anyone else. not sure. XD i mite have a TX accent and a Cajun accent, but its defianetly not a strong accent. lol
I see what you're saying. If I talked to you, you'd probably have a very strong accent to me. It seems people tell you that you don't have an accent because you sound like everyone else around you. But if you came up north to Seattle where I live, you would sound completely different than everybody else here. I'm sure you have a Texas/Louisiana hybrid accent.
@spikedurden Funny enough, I lived in Seattle for 6 months, and until I was there for 3, I never realized I had an accent. Until I noticed that I sounded different from everyone else. lol
@spikedurden when i started college we met alot of people from your area, and they sounded so funny to us. Every word was articulated lmao!! and nice sounded. A guy we lovenly nick-named seattle told us we were country fucks and just because he didn't talk as hard and mumbled as we did didn't make him a p*ssy lmao! i loved his sense of humor!
@SonictheHedgehog654 I was born and raised in Louisiana, and people tell me I have no accent; however, I do say certain things with a New Orleans drawl.
@spikedurden Doesn´t have to have any local accent, some families allow to use only official language- no local accent, no dialect :-). Only I am not sure which one is the official one in US... ??
@spikedurden That's true. I'm from the southwest corner of Louisiana, almost Texas and don't think I have an accent. I used to work with a guy from Worcester, MA. He and his wife sounded like those Kennedys, but they don't think they have an accent. They say I sound like a typical Texan.
@spikedurden I'm from central Arkansas and it's kinda hard to tell if I have an accent. You can tell someone's from outside the city around here by their accent.
Since I'm from the city. what kind of accent do you think I have if I'm from Central Arkansas (seriously, not trying to be snarky). Really the hard thing to do is to fight the "fake" accents and try not to use stuff like "fixin' to" and "y'all" to my cousins up in Kansas City. To them it's like I'm speaking another language! (kinda fun)
@7commenter7 some people could sound different in cali than florida...ive been to cali and a lot of them sounded a lot like me o.O then went to florida and was about the same...just depends on who u talk to :3
@7commenter7 In the northern part of Florida, they have Southern accents. Southern Florida has many people from up north and other parts of the country, so most do not have Southern accents there.
Y'all are all blasting queenwinterkat, but some of what she said is true. People judge Southern accents, and not always in a good way. It's happened to me, where someone heard my accent and started speaking slower to me, assuming I was stupid. People with Southern accents - or from the Gulf Coast - do have to contend with the occasional person that believes in the "stupid, swamp-dwelling hick" stereotype.
I love this accent as I do all accents. I find this accent and the culture fascinating and I'm so happy America is full of different types of people.
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i am an acadian born in new orleans. my dad and his family are from ville platte. unfortunately this "accent " is a real "cajun" accent. this is embarrassment to us educated acadians. the word cajun happened 'cause uneducated acadians can't pronounce words. also "yat" accents are new orleans accents from yat neighborhoods that sound similar to brooklyn for some reason.
That is a senseless attitude. No way of speaking is better than any other. "Uneducated cajuns" can indeed pronounce words, their words are just different from yours!! It should not be an embarrassment, it is simply different. I don't know about you, but I think it is quite similar to racism to have a problem with people on the basis of their accents. Just like racial diversity is a positive thing, diversity of accents is a positive thing and gives a country more character.
i'm acadian. if they taught this in engish class i'd pull my kid out of school. try going into the communications feild w/ this accent and see how far you get. my fiance and his family work for radio for years and learned proper english early on. tv & radio feel like their credibility is based on it. also being a 1st generation new orleanian who @ early on attended private school, i made it a point to eliminate it so i would be taken seriously instead of being a source of amusement for people.
what dont you get about this video? he's an elderly, Cajun man. he probably had little schooling, if any. people dont care about the bullshit of television and radio vs. how they speak, and take pride in how they live, talk, were raised..thats what's most important, after all. i'd definantly take my Cajun ancestory over what did you say? proper English? anyday. not to mention, English chicks love my accent. and, of course, private school kids are more fucked up than public school kids. trust me.
how does the way a person speak determines there intelligence it would be like all americans are uneducated because we dont speak the way the british does. language changes overtime and when you have several groups speaking the same language eventually the language will diverge into different accent
it has nothing to do with intelligence quota. also like i said, its mostly grammar. nobody's perfect which is especially why i think its always important to strive for improvement. also if you're a professional that has to deal with the public, like maybe a lawyer, you couldn't get up and ask a question like "and how old you are?'' i know a lot of very smart people who speak terrible english, but they are smart, however they are not percieved that way.
my Staff Sargeant was full blood Cajun. I'm Cajun. You don't want to embrace your Heritage; then that's fine by me. Proper English. You don't need to know proper english to understand a competent man with an accent. Open your damn ears and listen. Discriminating against your own culture. Damn.
Uneducated? Ohh, step off. I live in Galliano and I'm surrounded by this accent. I know just as many well educated people as I do "uneducated" and the accent has nothing to do with it. I, too, have this accent and I'll be damned if someone's going to claim I "can't pronounce words" because of it. Just because some words we say have an odd sound to them doesn't mean we're ignorant. Don't lump people together because of the way they sound. It makes YOU look uneducated.
Woah, woah, hold up on the "uneducated" deal. I'm definately cajun from Assumption Parish, and I moved to Ascension Parish a few years ago. Now, just because my accent is similar to this, just not AS flat as this, doesn't mean anything. It is not my fault that this is the way I was taught to speak, however it IS my fault that I scored a 31 on the ACT and am ranked in the top 20 in my class. I don't go to some little hick school, I go to Dutchtown High which is ranked top 8 in the state.
its possible some of us are educated in the ACADEMIC sense of the word, however you and i know most are not. thats why we have that stereotype. i refuse to speak like that and my family is from ville platte. anywho, the accent doesn't represent us well at all. opinion unchallenged.
Whoever you are, you need to be taken down to de bayou, or the swamps, whichever you prefer, & be fed to de gators!!! Be proud of who are! What's wrong wit' you?!
i love gators! i'm proud, just sick of other cultures looking in like we're some kind of zoo exhibit! lots of cultures are sick of outsiders amusing themselves @ their expense.
Yeah, I will say that I agree with you on being sick& tired of ppl always trying to make snap judgements about us when they know nothing about us or our culture. Still, that's something every single culture has to deal with. That's just a part of human nature, & us as human beings, well some just can't accept anyone/thing that's "different". Anyway, this is where my coonass philosiphy & way of being comes in.I just don't give a damn what ppl think of me or my heritage! I'm Redneck/Rebel proud!
By the way; You're from Louisiana; not Canada. You're Cajun. Not "Acadian", even though Cajun is slang for that. "Acadians" are born in Acadia. I don't know what century you're from, (I'm guessing you're pretty old) but last I heard Cajun wasn't declared a Derogatory enough term to be spat upon.
everyone in America has an accent to someone from another part of the country. If you actually think you don't, you either haven't traveled far from home, or people didn't find you interesting enough to even listen to your speech, but you do.
I had heard this one before. It is supposedly an actual voice mail left at an insurance company to see "if da ole lady is covered" after she disappeared during a hurricane. I'm from Ville Platte and it brings back memories.
I can understand him. When I lived in New Orleans and worked at a vet clinic the owner was buying some land from somewhere in the Bayou and when the Cajun selling the land would call for my boss I couldn't understand one word he was saying.
That was not a yat accent. I speak with a yat accent. That sounded cajun to me with some words have a yat influence, but that was definitely cajun english. I'm from the New Orleans area.
:3 My Grandmother has a Cajun accent, and so does my Grandfather. But I don't. D: I'm half Cajun, so I pronounce the /way/ they do, but I'm not fully Cajun.
so u want the full cajun accent? well if u do thats cool. I luv accents i think there awesum. i will never make fun of an accent, cuz accents just rock. ;D
But it kind of seems like you're making fun of the accents when you say in your header "It is hilarious."
I used to hide my Southern accent because it was "funny" to some people, now I'm glad I have an accent that's not indicative of just another bland boring anonymous suburban upbringing...you know a "normal" accent.
haha! i live in louisiana but in new orleans so we dont have accents like that...my family is from a small town and they have accents and all my friends love how they talk!
i know its awesum. I luv the accent. I was born in New Orleans, but now im in Lafayette. But i still go there. the accent is sooo awesum and hilarious. lol
yeah me too a little, and i'm not tryin to make fun of anyone with one, i just thought this was pretty funny. no offense to anyone with an accent. Accents ROCK!!!
I like how we're all just totally ignoring that apparently this man's dog and wife just got blown away/drowned and only her pants are left behind, and he doesn't know if his insurance covers this sort of thing...
juliejunkyardx 2 months ago 5
It sounds like North Ontario Frenchman with no teeth speaking English to me. I know cuz I've heard a lot of them.
treblejunkie 4 months ago
@treblejunkie Cajun's are the descendents of Acadiens expelled by the Brits from the Maritimes, so the accent is different but related. Cajun's are related to French Canadians.
Mehtaphorical 3 months ago
Im from melbourne Florida and we dont sound like cali people, we have southern accents here...
CHRISTAFARIAN777 4 months ago
Ya'll makin' fun of my state? xD.
Leprai 6 months ago
that aint no pure cajun accent.
jjizabeast1 6 months ago
I have an example as well. A girl from England, a girl from New York, and myself were all talking on ventrilo. To my ears, the New York girl and myself sounded exactly the same, but the English lady said right away that I had more of a "california" accent, AKA the kind you always hear in Hollywood movies. Its sad because everyone around here assumes they have no accent...but that makes absolutely no sense if you think about it.
TenouHaruka0 7 months ago
that man dont have an accent to me but i guess to other ppl he might, but thats talkin normal for me.
Kendra70560 8 months ago
He sounds like an educated cajun. I've lived in south Louisiana most of my life and believe me there are a lot heavier accents than that guy.
glipzik 9 months ago
@WhoIsBaz lol..yeah i have a friend whos from the UK..i luv her accent and she says i sound really different..but thats like everyone else here in the US xD just depends on where ur from if u sound like u have an accent x3
SonictheHedgehog654 10 months ago
its weird to think people would want to have my accent.(cajun)
bieberswagga1998 10 months ago
i need to find me a cajun girl, i could listen to her all day :)
DUBPlateDAN91 10 months ago
UH OK... SOUNDS LIKE GUTTER FRENCH
Correctivemind 10 months ago
I ave that accent. Of course I am cajun.
allisongirlfriend 10 months ago
omg...so this is what I sound like when I speak!!!! Im born and raised in Acadiana. My mom is from virginia and when we go to visit her family, they have no clue what im talking about half the time! This explains why
mistrosr11 10 months ago
Search for 007bondjbc channel.
TgkAA 11 months ago
I need to find me a Cajun husband!! I could listen to him talk all effin day
sillymiette 11 months ago
LOL! This is so interesting. I was born and raised in Louisiana (still there now) and I had never given a second thought about our accent until I went to Las Vegas with some family a year or two ago and we asked a guy where was the tour bus. He looked like 'huh?' and we repeated it and he went 'oh, the tour bus'. To me it sounded like he pronounced 'tour' the same way we did but I guess not.
geowhit88 1 year ago
sounds exactly like my grandpa.
butchwalkah 1 year ago
from 0:32 to 0:37, boomhauer
cbcrog 1 year ago
I wish i had a cajun accent, but im more than happy with my southern draw lol. not exactley the most intelligent sounding one in the world, but still i like it
cbcrog 1 year ago
people from New Orleans do not sound like that. I was born in Breaux Bridge and they ALL speak like this. I used to when I was really young.
heyabbi 1 year ago
I am a blue-bellied Yankee from IL, but I married me an authentic Red-necked Coonass from Houma, LA. We have been married for 18 years and are quite happy. Whenever we watch Swamp People, it's funny 'cause they have to put subtitles. We understand, just fine! LOL!
MiJacFan1 1 year ago
@MiJacFan1 I'm a Cajun from Lake Charles, but my girlfriend is from North Carolina. She's not a yankee, but she still has trouble understanding us in south Louisiana. And she can't understand why everything that should end in 'o', is spelled 'eau' or 'eaux'.
ridgerunner721601 11 months ago
Im from there- i have a cajiun accent.i think its cool1 :D
1998cupcake 1 year ago
I have no idea what was said.I`m not being ignorant because i`m not making fun of anything here.I seen people mention that this accent is dying.Well i hope not because to me a tradition is dying and we can`t all be what everybody else is.Ethnicity is so important now especially in America.
openedup09 1 year ago
in my middle school there was a cajun boy who spoke a pretty deep cajun accent. Even spoke some french, so like everyone in schoo l would be like wtf is this hill billy saying, i always thought it was pretty cool
khangastain 1 year ago
@khangastain Yeah I love accents especially New Orleans/louisiana/Cajun accents. They're really pretty.
NMSailormoon 1 year ago
hahaha! i love it ....
fireshot808 1 year ago
Rene from True Blood! :)
ILoveTheUsed69 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 Redneck: like on My Name is Earl Hillbilly: people from the hills who are similar to rednecks
Cajun/coonass: people from south Louisiana who are from the bayou, we are like Ray from the princess and the frog I guess to give an example.
We are NOT considered hillbillies or rednecks, thems fightin words i'd say :)
220duckie 1 year ago
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nnnnnsssssssssllllln 1 year ago
Im a yankee & I think the cajun accent is my favorite. Calvin borel has a good cajun accent.
JMcLovn 1 year ago
That was fucking brilliant.... coming from a Brit in the West Country. Go watch 'Hot Fuzz' if you want to know what I sound like :p
I read a novel where a woman on the bomb squad in LA was highly infatuated with her work partner, who had a Cajun accent (this made him all the more lovable, apparently). I've been dying to know what it sounds like :)
BriarFilth 1 year ago
@spikedurden - not everyone in a particular place has that particular accent, though. I have lived in South Louisiana and for whatever reason do not have *any* of the many Louisiana accents, to the point that it gets commented on all the time and people sometimes ask me where I'm from. Accents are becoming more and more standardized due to television and radio, and the idea that regional accents are somehow undesirable in the workplace. If I'm not making a conscious effort, I speak 'American TV'
tinkerbom 1 year ago
My [central] California accent sounds so boring when I compare it to the accent of, say, Cajuns and my Geelong cousins. )=
camillerocks911 2 years ago
cajun accent? sounds like a french speaking english.
IIramboII 2 years ago
@IIramboII throw in some southern and thats essentially what cajun is :P
DefconBravo 1 year ago
i see
IIramboII 1 year ago
@IIramboII kinda what a cajun accent is, from what i can get. It's basically french-American redneck
ishbog99 1 year ago
just like that Chef guy in Apocalypse Now. :)
IIramboII 1 year ago
@IIramboII :
yes, it does. problem is I'm french and I can barely understand him!
nadiacalat 1 year ago
B S !!
hyperhunk90 2 years ago
Definitely Cajun
OnTheRun167 2 years ago
Haha! Not only does he SPEAK like Rene in True Blood, he SOUNDS like him too!;D
Dildolars 2 years ago
thats the old paw paw cajun accent
Maylovely93 2 years ago
im cajun french :D very fun accent, we have. but its annoying as crapc ause people always say "OH SAY THIS, AND OH SAY THAT" like really? ignorant. and i say ma-cher. Easieerrr
BRiSTERProductions 2 years ago
Do you speak French? I mean, is French your native language?
d0rmeur 2 years ago
Now my Minnesota accent isn't quite as interesting, but I know what you mean about people asking you to say things all the time. And then they snicker because I say it "funny".
MsRandomnessAddict 2 years ago
mais, wais, mon neg!
inumarudurglaur 2 years ago
That aint really that cajun, Im from Louisiana and theirs so much thicker accents.. hell, mine is better than that
BRiSTERProductions 2 years ago
It depends on what part of LA ya tawkin bot.
CajunMetalMama 2 years ago
lol hes fakin that cuz i got a cajun accent at that shore isnt it mau sha
Lachneyh 2 years ago
its spelled cher...but said Sha...Im cajun born and raised lol
HappyLilBunny18 2 years ago
why do you still speak french after all that years?
IIramboII 1 year ago
@Lachneyh :
"mau sha" equals "mon cher", doesn't it?
nadiacalat 1 year ago
No offence ment to anyone. . .Lolz. But when I used to watch True Blood, I never thought Rene was Cajun. . .I always just thought he was slow . . .O.o But thats just me, I kinda think that people with REALLLYYY strong Cajun accents 'sound' 'slow'. . Not are slow just sound it. I mean I can never understand what there saying. . .
littleaprilroses 2 years ago
Lol im cajun and i agree!
I mean cajuns come off as very slow people. I dont have the accent because i was raised with my mothers side of the family and but my grandfather has a very thick accent. Its hard to understand.
haykay13 2 years ago
cajuns are the descendants of the french-speaking acadians who came to america from canada. creoles are the descendants of the folks who were french and spanish.
micahtolar 2 years ago
The Creole people were the Haitian slaves brought by the Spaniards to the french Louisiana.
CajunMetalMama 2 years ago
Créole was the name of the "sujets du roi de France" that were born in the colonies of Louisiana ... Cajuns came from "Acadia" ...
BOUCHAK 2 years ago
Ha this reminds me of true blood!!!
Stormblast1993 2 years ago
true bloods badass
wlblackkid 2 years ago
this sounds creole to me.
micahtolar 2 years ago
cajun IS derivative of creole.
beavcleaver1 2 years ago
This man is from a very rural area in Acadiana, either Henderson/Cecelia, St Martinville, Broussard, Carencro, somewhere rural and definately within Acadiana area
NitaBMe 2 years ago
Thats my grandpa's accent! He's a white cajun btw lol!
070292 2 years ago
it's like redneck cajun to me. my friend's dad sounds just like this and he's not black =)
Pmuree86 2 years ago
Gambit!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rangersoul5 2 years ago
lmao
degshippo 2 years ago
This is not exactly cajun, i'ts more african american cajun.
ThePookieJones 2 years ago
lol same I was thinking. He sounds Cajun, but it definitely sounds like a black cajun hehe XD
lilmace49 2 years ago
He sounds white to me; but den again I am Cajun.
NitaBMe 2 years ago
ahhhhhh!!! love this accent
Qu33nTh3odora 2 years ago
Mais I don't talk like that no. LMAO. Even the cajun accents are different. We know who lives in what area of Louisiana by the accent they have.
CajunMetalMama 2 years ago
Where you from? I'm a Mouton from Breaux Bridge.
NitaBMe 2 years ago
its funnie that people want accents like ours. its just normal to me.lol
17kallieann10 2 years ago
i have grown to love dis accent cuz of Gambit,from the x-men<3
usagikurisu89 2 years ago 2
sounds like someone with cerebral palsy
but its a cool accent
JuanPapaNicolao 2 years ago
crazy to think people would actually wanna have my accent lol
ladybugsarah3000 2 years ago 2
I want it. hehe. hate not having an accent. Allwell.
u lucky.
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago 2
Sonic-
You do have an accent, no matter where you are from you have an accent. Any person speaking any language has some form of accent. Tell me where you're from and I'll tell you what accent you have. Travel to the opposite end of whatever country you live in and I guarantee people will notice you speak differently. For example, I'm from southern California originally and my mid-west relatives comment on my west coast accent all the time. They don't think they have an accent, but to me they do
spikedurden 2 years ago 26
was irigina;;y born in New Orleans, but then moved to TX, now vack in LA. But everyone says i have like no accent. XD in TX they said i sounded no different than anyone else. not sure. XD i mite have a TX accent and a Cajun accent, but its defianetly not a strong accent. lol
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
I see what you're saying. If I talked to you, you'd probably have a very strong accent to me. It seems people tell you that you don't have an accent because you sound like everyone else around you. But if you came up north to Seattle where I live, you would sound completely different than everybody else here. I'm sure you have a Texas/Louisiana hybrid accent.
spikedurden 2 years ago 4
SWEET!!! XD, yeah would be kool to find out. lol. and that prob whats going on. lol.
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
@spikedurden Funny enough, I lived in Seattle for 6 months, and until I was there for 3, I never realized I had an accent. Until I noticed that I sounded different from everyone else. lol
niteboy82 1 year ago
@spikedurden when i started college we met alot of people from your area, and they sounded so funny to us. Every word was articulated lmao!! and nice sounded. A guy we lovenly nick-named seattle told us we were country fucks and just because he didn't talk as hard and mumbled as we did didn't make him a p*ssy lmao! i loved his sense of humor!
ThaigherLilie 1 year ago
@spikedurden Makes sense. I'm not sure I have an accent, cause damn near everyone around me sounds just like me.
wildside316 1 year ago
@SonictheHedgehog654 I was born and raised in Louisiana, and people tell me I have no accent; however, I do say certain things with a New Orleans drawl.
JeSuisHaleyAndrea 1 year ago
@spikedurden Doesn´t have to have any local accent, some families allow to use only official language- no local accent, no dialect :-). Only I am not sure which one is the official one in US... ??
finehomemadewine 1 year ago
@spikedurden Im from new york, about an hour away from the city. Would people recognize me having a accent?
dolsonboy88 1 year ago
@spikedurden That's true. I'm from the southwest corner of Louisiana, almost Texas and don't think I have an accent. I used to work with a guy from Worcester, MA. He and his wife sounded like those Kennedys, but they don't think they have an accent. They say I sound like a typical Texan.
ridgerunner721601 11 months ago
@spikedurden I'm from central Arkansas and it's kinda hard to tell if I have an accent. You can tell someone's from outside the city around here by their accent.
Since I'm from the city. what kind of accent do you think I have if I'm from Central Arkansas (seriously, not trying to be snarky). Really the hard thing to do is to fight the "fake" accents and try not to use stuff like "fixin' to" and "y'all" to my cousins up in Kansas City. To them it's like I'm speaking another language! (kinda fun)
chrisz71 10 months ago
@spikedurden Do people from Florida have the same accent as Cali, cuz I cant hear the difference.
7commenter7 8 months ago
@7commenter7 some people could sound different in cali than florida...ive been to cali and a lot of them sounded a lot like me o.O then went to florida and was about the same...just depends on who u talk to :3
SonictheHedgehog654 8 months ago
@7commenter7 In the northern part of Florida, they have Southern accents. Southern Florida has many people from up north and other parts of the country, so most do not have Southern accents there.
shreve99 5 months ago
@spikedurden i live in ohio grew up in the south but i dont have an accent?
seminoleboy96 5 months ago
@SonictheHedgehog654 Here's the tip: try to speak another language! Hehe! ;D
Cuz this is how accents are 'made')))
Travmapunk 9 months ago
Heard my Pa Breaux in that one. Poor guy, he ever get his wife back? Or his dog? :(
raemeredith 2 years ago
dont make fun of me im cajun and im proud to be a coon ass
erikaroks112 2 years ago
whos making fun of u? I'll go kick there butt. Cuz i am too. A little. ;) want to be more than just a little, but allwell.
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
yeah, don' worry 'bout it homme. I too am cajun. B'cause o' my african heritage, I be considered "Creole"
Ibanez2009 2 years ago
i wish my accent sounded more like that. That's how my Mawmaw and Pawpaw talk
Kristen70364 2 years ago
Y'all are all blasting queenwinterkat, but some of what she said is true. People judge Southern accents, and not always in a good way. It's happened to me, where someone heard my accent and started speaking slower to me, assuming I was stupid. People with Southern accents - or from the Gulf Coast - do have to contend with the occasional person that believes in the "stupid, swamp-dwelling hick" stereotype.
Flerpi 2 years ago
theyre just jealous of our awesome sexy accents
ThePaperAirport 2 years ago
Fronglokey1 theres a place in Louisiana called Acadiana you can google it. Stop trying to correct people when there right and your wrong.
07Smurff 2 years ago
i love accents!!!! love hearing em!! all kinds...
msloverock 2 years ago 12
thumbs up tp that.
fuckapotomis 2 years ago
I love Cajuns, I only wish that i could call my self one of them =( I'm also trying to learn Cajun french to save just a piece of it for my self =D
NemanorTheAlmighty 2 years ago 5
I love this accent as I do all accents. I find this accent and the culture fascinating and I'm so happy America is full of different types of people.
yes4albert 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
i am an acadian born in new orleans. my dad and his family are from ville platte. unfortunately this "accent " is a real "cajun" accent. this is embarrassment to us educated acadians. the word cajun happened 'cause uneducated acadians can't pronounce words. also "yat" accents are new orleans accents from yat neighborhoods that sound similar to brooklyn for some reason.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
That is a senseless attitude. No way of speaking is better than any other. "Uneducated cajuns" can indeed pronounce words, their words are just different from yours!! It should not be an embarrassment, it is simply different. I don't know about you, but I think it is quite similar to racism to have a problem with people on the basis of their accents. Just like racial diversity is a positive thing, diversity of accents is a positive thing and gives a country more character.
pastoralist 2 years ago 16
i luv accents. i have no problem with them. I wish i had one. I do not have a problem with the people who have accents.
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
its the bad grammar mostly, some of you what say is true, however my opinion remains.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
i'm acadian. if they taught this in engish class i'd pull my kid out of school. try going into the communications feild w/ this accent and see how far you get. my fiance and his family work for radio for years and learned proper english early on. tv & radio feel like their credibility is based on it. also being a 1st generation new orleanian who @ early on attended private school, i made it a point to eliminate it so i would be taken seriously instead of being a source of amusement for people.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
what dont you get about this video? he's an elderly, Cajun man. he probably had little schooling, if any. people dont care about the bullshit of television and radio vs. how they speak, and take pride in how they live, talk, were raised..thats what's most important, after all. i'd definantly take my Cajun ancestory over what did you say? proper English? anyday. not to mention, English chicks love my accent. and, of course, private school kids are more fucked up than public school kids. trust me.
apbf 2 years ago 5
how does the way a person speak determines there intelligence it would be like all americans are uneducated because we dont speak the way the british does. language changes overtime and when you have several groups speaking the same language eventually the language will diverge into different accent
negkreyol21 2 years ago
it has nothing to do with intelligence quota. also like i said, its mostly grammar. nobody's perfect which is especially why i think its always important to strive for improvement. also if you're a professional that has to deal with the public, like maybe a lawyer, you couldn't get up and ask a question like "and how old you are?'' i know a lot of very smart people who speak terrible english, but they are smart, however they are not percieved that way.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
Also; it makes no sense to contradict yourself; Read your original post then read this one.
fronglokey1 2 years ago
my Staff Sargeant was full blood Cajun. I'm Cajun. You don't want to embrace your Heritage; then that's fine by me. Proper English. You don't need to know proper english to understand a competent man with an accent. Open your damn ears and listen. Discriminating against your own culture. Damn.
fronglokey1 2 years ago 3
Uneducated? Ohh, step off. I live in Galliano and I'm surrounded by this accent. I know just as many well educated people as I do "uneducated" and the accent has nothing to do with it. I, too, have this accent and I'll be damned if someone's going to claim I "can't pronounce words" because of it. Just because some words we say have an odd sound to them doesn't mean we're ignorant. Don't lump people together because of the way they sound. It makes YOU look uneducated.
KouyamaMitsuki 2 years ago 5
Woah, woah, hold up on the "uneducated" deal. I'm definately cajun from Assumption Parish, and I moved to Ascension Parish a few years ago. Now, just because my accent is similar to this, just not AS flat as this, doesn't mean anything. It is not my fault that this is the way I was taught to speak, however it IS my fault that I scored a 31 on the ACT and am ranked in the top 20 in my class. I don't go to some little hick school, I go to Dutchtown High which is ranked top 8 in the state.
lilbitpvsr10 2 years ago 5
its possible some of us are educated in the ACADEMIC sense of the word, however you and i know most are not. thats why we have that stereotype. i refuse to speak like that and my family is from ville platte. anywho, the accent doesn't represent us well at all. opinion unchallenged.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
Whoever you are, you need to be taken down to de bayou, or the swamps, whichever you prefer, & be fed to de gators!!! Be proud of who are! What's wrong wit' you?!
kajunbaby5 2 years ago
i love gators! i'm proud, just sick of other cultures looking in like we're some kind of zoo exhibit! lots of cultures are sick of outsiders amusing themselves @ their expense.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
Yeah, I will say that I agree with you on being sick& tired of ppl always trying to make snap judgements about us when they know nothing about us or our culture. Still, that's something every single culture has to deal with. That's just a part of human nature, & us as human beings, well some just can't accept anyone/thing that's "different". Anyway, this is where my coonass philosiphy & way of being comes in.I just don't give a damn what ppl think of me or my heritage! I'm Redneck/Rebel proud!
kajunbaby5 2 years ago
By the way; You're from Louisiana; not Canada. You're Cajun. Not "Acadian", even though Cajun is slang for that. "Acadians" are born in Acadia. I don't know what century you're from, (I'm guessing you're pretty old) but last I heard Cajun wasn't declared a Derogatory enough term to be spat upon.
fronglokey1 2 years ago
i'm 34 and we're from Acadiana in louisiana
queenwinterkat 2 years ago 2
Mais cher, dat was no Yat accen' no! - I grew up in Metry and went to college in Lafayette. That was about as Cajun as it gets. I miss that.
lexhead 3 years ago
cool, and yeah. I luv accents. I kinda wish i had one, but i don't. allwell.
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
everyone in America has an accent to someone from another part of the country. If you actually think you don't, you either haven't traveled far from home, or people didn't find you interesting enough to even listen to your speech, but you do.
SSGPops 2 years ago
yeah, true. guess we all do. i must not have a strong accent. lol
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
I had heard this one before. It is supposedly an actual voice mail left at an insurance company to see "if da ole lady is covered" after she disappeared during a hurricane. I'm from Ville Platte and it brings back memories.
joaybear 2 years ago
cool
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
I love this! Reminds me of home! ! ! ! And whoever said this isn't a Cajun accent is crazy, it's pure Cajun! Thanks for posting!
jarileigh 3 years ago
yeah. i got it and thought it was awesum cuz i just moved to Louisiana from Texas. so i really got into accents, but i don't have one.
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
sounds like he's calling the insurance company... guess the old lady is covered, i wonder what the replacement cost is
sortego1 3 years ago
I miss cajun accents (from when I used to live in Louisiana). I didn't even get one from living there (up to 12 years old).
My Paw Paw kind of sounds like this guy.
maclasch 3 years ago
It's Pah-Pah! :-)
Je suis Acadienne du Nouveau Brunswick! Vive l'Acadie.
Hatorah 2 years ago 2
I can understand him. When I lived in New Orleans and worked at a vet clinic the owner was buying some land from somewhere in the Bayou and when the Cajun selling the land would call for my boss I couldn't understand one word he was saying.
filmjoyce 3 years ago
he must've had a strong accent
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
maybe he was a DRUNK cajun.
queenwinterkat 2 years ago
idk. gotta wonder, but I doubt it
SonictheHedgehog654 2 years ago
Nope. Doubt it.
selty 2 years ago
dat don't sound like no cajun.............lol
Redrose904 3 years ago
Rene Lenier
dice568 3 years ago
that sounded like one of my teachers
PBRAILEY 3 years ago
lol. seriously? Thats awesum
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
I love it but it sounds more Yat than Cajun.
TruthSerum101 3 years ago
That was not a yat accent. I speak with a yat accent. That sounded cajun to me with some words have a yat influence, but that was definitely cajun english. I'm from the New Orleans area.
IslenoGutierrez 3 years ago
I'm also from the New Orleans area and probably twice your age. Through the years, I have heard different "Degrees of Yat".
TruthSerum101 3 years ago
That was a Cajun accent. If you think otherwise, then you've never heard a Cajun accent before.
Spatcher 3 years ago
Oh, please. I've heard many a YAT sound just like that.
TruthSerum101 3 years ago
cool.
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
its not a big deal, i hear accents like this every day. lol
ebootay08 3 years ago
From Breaux Bridge! We talk like that I guess. =]
surferbabe675 3 years ago
:3 My Grandmother has a Cajun accent, and so does my Grandfather. But I don't. D: I'm half Cajun, so I pronounce the /way/ they do, but I'm not fully Cajun.
Kazesochi 3 years ago
so u want the full cajun accent? well if u do thats cool. I luv accents i think there awesum. i will never make fun of an accent, cuz accents just rock. ;D
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
But it kind of seems like you're making fun of the accents when you say in your header "It is hilarious."
I used to hide my Southern accent because it was "funny" to some people, now I'm glad I have an accent that's not indicative of just another bland boring anonymous suburban upbringing...you know a "normal" accent.
lizajeans 3 years ago
oh no. I luv accents. srry. I'll go change the title. I'm srry. didn't think it would mean that. anyway thanx for telling me. Ima go change it.
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
haha! i live in louisiana but in new orleans so we dont have accents like that...my family is from a small town and they have accents and all my friends love how they talk!
morganlovejonas 3 years ago
i know its awesum. I luv the accent. I was born in New Orleans, but now im in Lafayette. But i still go there. the accent is sooo awesum and hilarious. lol
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
i love cajun accents. They don't sound country tho
breakwaves 3 years ago
yeah thats true, and i luv the accents too, their awesum
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago
that was hilarious. I will admit i have a country accent but it is no where near that!
pinkyb27983 3 years ago
yeah me too a little, and i'm not tryin to make fun of anyone with one, i just thought this was pretty funny. no offense to anyone with an accent. Accents ROCK!!!
SonictheHedgehog654 3 years ago