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Old Posted Aug 17, 2019, 7:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Centropolis View Post
in the case of both missouri and louisiana, french decline in the principle city preceded rural areas by many decades, if not a century. i’ve never heard french or franglish in new orleans that i can recall.
I sought old timers on purpose (and I got directed to this one specific social event on one given evening) while spending time in Lafayette, Louisiana in ~2004 and did find a few very old people who spoke some very weird French and had some short conversations with them.

I figured at the time that later in my life, this wouldn't be possible anymore (and I suppose I was correct; it's been a while since I've been in the area but none of these people are likely to be around anymore, 15+ years later) so I'm glad I did. Pretty unique experience.

Pretty sure I've shared that anecdote already on SSP, whenever this sort of discussion comes up
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