Swamp People

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Anyone else watch this on History? Just found it two episodes again and I love it.

I can't believe there are people who are Americans and talk like that, I just sit and laugh and laugh. Course I gotta give them credit, I would get all sorts of lost in those swamps.

 

[ragincajun]

Its a good show but waaay too dramatized. If you are refering to their French/Acadian accent, they speak that way because they learn to speak french first when they are young..and then english when they start school. they live in the swamp and live in the swamp...its just their culture and has been for hundreds of years. the other guys are just your typical coon asses (people from LA who live in the southern parts). My fav. quote from the show " we betta catch dat big head before he kills some kid swimin or somethin bad happens" lol. all in all its a good show. sends me back to my roots lol

 

[christopher]

 

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Its a good show but waaay too dramatized. If you are refering to their French/Acadian accent, they speak that way because they learn to speak french first when they are young..and then english when they start school. they live in the swamp and live in the swamp...its just their culture and has been for hundreds of years. the other guys are just your typical coon asses (people from LA who live in the southern parts). My fav. quote from the show " we betta catch dat big head before he kills some kid swimin or somethin bad happens" lol. all in all its a good show. sends me back to my roots lol

Oh chit you mean your actually a cajun?

I don't know why but I love that show. Makes me wanna leave the spruce swamps and peat bogs of northern MN and see what the swamps are like down there.

 

[ragincajun]

lol ya. my whole family is from wither texas of LA. i was born and raised part of my life there and then moved to mt when i was younger due to all increasing crime etc. its quite the place lol. the bayou is really a neat place. tons of cool **** and waay different than any place you will ever go. just dont get out of the boat... lol my family us2 hunt gators and whatever else. my great grandpa lived in the bayou for most of his life. my great grandma was fluent in french(southern version). i remember coming home and my grandpa and dad had a 14 footer hung from an oak tree....that thing was one big mofo!! i guess my great great grandpa alma como blew himself up fishing lol. he smoked stogies and an ash fell into the blasting cap box and blew himself and the boat up lol. he ended up surviving but went blind. after that happend he designed and pat. the first concrete step mold and started a multi-million dollar business. he did all this blind. here is a little deal about him on their website. pretty cool http://www.centurygrp.com/AboutUs.asp
everytime i step on a comcrete step..i can think my great great grandfather started all this lol.
i love how they just had to pick the my stereotypical people. except for a couple of them.

 

[mikew5945]

Anyone else watch this on History? Just found it two episodes again and I love it.

I can't believe there are people who are Americans and talk like that, I just sit and laugh and laugh. Course I gotta give them credit, I would get all sorts of lost in those swamps.

Quick question..No offence meant....

Have you looked at your AVATAR?

 

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Quick question..No offence meant....

Have you looked at your AVATAR?

Great isn't it.

 

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lol ya. my whole family is from wither texas of LA. i was born and raised part of my life there and then moved to mt when i was younger due to all increasing crime etc. its quite the place lol. the bayou is really a neat place. tons of cool **** and waay different than any place you will ever go. just dont get out of the boat... lol my family us2 hunt gators and whatever else. my great grandpa lived in the bayou for most of his life. my great grandma was fluent in french(southern version). i remember coming home and my grandpa and dad had a 14 footer hung from an oak tree....that thing was one big mofo!! i guess my great great grandpa alma como blew himself up fishing lol. he smoked stogies and an ash fell into the blasting cap box and blew himself and the boat up lol. he ended up surviving but went blind. after that happend he designed and pat. the first concrete step mold and started a multi-million dollar business. he did all this blind. here is a little deal about him on their website. pretty cool http://www.centurygrp.com/AboutUs.asp
everytime i step on a comcrete step..i can think my great great grandfather started all this lol.
i love how they just had to pick the my stereotypical people. except for a couple of them.

I was thinking about your post mentioning the accent coming from speaking french before English and I meant to ask about that.

Obviously it has got to be a very different type of french then they speak in France cause I know a french girl and she doesn't sound like that....then again she looks better too!

Is it a pure type of french that just has different accents and dialects? Or is it more of a hybrid Creole type language?

 

[knzee]

Fishing with dynamite, sounds like a pretty fun place.

lol ya. my whole family is from wither texas of LA. i was born and raised part of my life there and then moved to mt when i was younger due to all increasing crime etc. its quite the place lol. the bayou is really a neat place. tons of cool **** and waay different than any place you will ever go. just dont get out of the boat... lol my family us2 hunt gators and whatever else. my great grandpa lived in the bayou for most of his life. my great grandma was fluent in french(southern version). i remember coming home and my grandpa and dad had a 14 footer hung from an oak tree....that thing was one big mofo!! i guess my great great grandpa alma como blew himself up fishing lol. he smoked stogies and an ash fell into the blasting cap box and blew himself and the boat up lol. he ended up surviving but went blind. after that happend he designed and pat. the first concrete step mold and started a multi-million dollar business. he did all this blind. here is a little deal about him on their website. pretty cool http://www.centurygrp.com/AboutUs.asp
everytime i step on a comcrete step..i can think my great great grandfather started all this lol.
i love how they just had to pick the my stereotypical people. except for a couple of them.

 

[ragincajun]

its a creol/own version of french. it is not quite like straight up french

 

[Ox]

I don't like to watch those kind of shows, but I did find it interesting the first show as to what and how they were dooing it. I saw a little bit the day they guy hauled in a cpl tons of gators in one day.

Same as Ice Road Truckers.... I found it very interesting for a little bit as to how they doo it. (The real ice - not the Haul Road) The over-drama is lost on me. Same for the gator show. But a show or two to learn the job is very interesting IMO.

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[ruffryder]

But a show or two to learn the job is very interesting IMO.
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Dirty jobs rocked for that.

 

[Scott]

Quick question..No offence meant....

Have you looked at your AVATAR?

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ox]

Quick question..No offence meant....

Have you looked at your AVATAR?

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was thinking the same thing when he said that....

Dirty jobs rocked for that.

I don't generally watch that either, but I saw that they were cleaning out the Locks at The Soo one time recently, and I watched that. ...wasn't interested in the cleaning part, but that is a heck'uv'a tour from the comfort of my warm chair.

Koodn't believe how much time they wasted on running a snow-blower on ice. ??? I guess a lot of folks watching it don't live in the snow belt tho. ???

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[Mafesto]

Dale Earnhardt Jr sounds like he's a swamp people when he talk

 

[PJ-Hunter]

Dale Earnhardt Jr sounds like he's a swamp people when he talk

And you write like it. How goes it Bill?

I love Cajuns. I think they are unique and I love the accent. And they know how to cook. Hoo EE!