Date:  Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:53:37 -0600

From:  Shana Walton <swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WHALE.ST.USM.EDU>

Subject: Re: Cajun Query



I'm not sure about mass being said in French. It wasn't where I lived in

Terrebonne Parish and folks didn't talk about that as one of the changes

(the big change was from Latin). But if anybody knows, Barry Ancelet does.

He's at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (dept. of foreign languages),

Lafayette, Louisiana. Also at the same university is Marcia Gaudet, who

I'm sure could answer the same question. I don't know their email

addresses offhand, but I'll try and get to forward them to you or you

might try fingering them. Another contact person is Ray Brassieur. Sorry I

don't have the addresses at hand.

shana





>

> I imagine that somewhere in Cajun territory mass is said in French. Is it

> said in something like standard French or in Cajun French? Are leaflet

> missalettes printed in standard French and then read aloud in Cajun French

> or are the missalettes actually printed in spelling to reflect Cajun

> pronunciation? How can I get my hands on one of these missalettes?

>

>

> Wayne Glowka

> Professor of English

> Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

> Georgia College

> Milledgeville, GA 31061

> 912-453-4222

> wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gc3.gac.peachnet.edu

>





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Shana Walton

Mississippi Oral History Program

University of Southern Mississippi

swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]whale.st.usm.edu

(601) 266-5606