cajun word/phrase of the day #1

im coming to u w some shid bc im slightly bored and want to spread some cajun luv w u all.

im not totally fluent with cajun dialect but i do know a handful.

i have a cajun vocabulary book somewhere and once i can find it ill be able to better articulate stuff for u.

side note:

cajun takes words from english and french but they dont always have the same meaning/very vague version of the meaning. and things may be pronounced slightly different. clarifying in case youre not familiar with the dialect / speak french and thinking " " bc it means something totally different LOL.

BUT REGARDLESS. heres the cajun phrase of the day.

"pauvre bête"

prononced: pawf bet

** its more like a v and f sound combined. pauv/pawf

**its not a hard T. like the word "bet" but like as in your just starting to say the T sound but incomplete it.

means 'poor thing'

u watch someone take a massive L and u cant help but feel bad for them.

used in a sentence

"t-bob was fishing and fell straight into the water 😔"

"pauve bête!!"

idk why im doing this but i hope u enjoy the occasional cajun lessons.

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This sounds like fun, and I'm always down to learn more new things. Add me to the taglist if there is one.

slay! i could definitely make one! thank u for showing interesting hehe~~

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Thank you~ I like tidbits and learning stuff like this. Why my little sister in New Orleans for the past 20 years and never thought me any lol...

yay, glad to help spread the word~~ oiii awwwh;; haha ;;; iirc new orleans is more creole based which is a whole nother type of dialect LOL the cultures do mix obviously, but we have some differences but thats so cool that she lives in new orleans! i miss it sm lolz

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If there's a taglist please add me!

I've never heard of Cajun before, looking it up it sounds very interesting and fascinating as I wanna go into linguistics when I'm older.

So it's a d sound kinda?

ill add you!! thank you

its is!! && thats so cool, omg. theres just so many cool languages and dialects in this world ;;;

yeah! i almost wrote bed too but i was probably thinking way to hard on it, it didnt sound quite right to me still haha.

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I'm gonna go way too deep into this but istg there's a technical term for that incompleted d sound and it's not a 'glottal stop'

There isn't, however in the IPA these types of T's are represented by a t̬ in the Collins dictionary meaning it's voiced however isn't a 't' sound, just an incomplete one.

Sorry I went on a ramble I just like talking about these things

no! don't apologize! this is cool to know the technicals of it. i barely know any of the specifics when it comes to these things so its great getting some insight on em!! thank you!!