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Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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nct(as exampled by such Creole words as banquette forsidewalk, in place of the French word trottoir, andthe word baire, whence comes the American termmosquito bar. The influence elf colloquial Frenchfrom Canada may also be traced in New Orleans, andthe language there was further affected by the strangejargon spoken by the Creole negro—precisely as theEnglish dialect of negroes in other parts of the Southmay be said to have affected the speech of all theSouthern States. Between the dialect of the Louisiana Cajan and thatof the French Canadian of Quebec and northern NewYork there is a strong resemblance; but the Creole negrolanguage is a thing entirely apart, being made up, it issaid, partly from French and partly from African wordsounds, just as the gulla of the South Carolina coastis made up from African and English. The one is nomore intelligible to a Frenchman than the other to aLondoner. The ignorant Creole negro wishing to sayI do not understand, would not say moi je ne com- 640
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o HISTORY, THE CREOLE, AND HIS DUELS prends pas, but mo pas connais; similarly for I amgoing away, he does not say, je men vais, but mape couri; while for T have a horse, instead of jaiun cheval, he will put the statement, me ganye choue.It is a dialect lacking mood, tense, and grammar. To this day one may occasionally see in New Orleansand in other lower river towns an old mammy wear-ing the bandanna headdress called a tignon, which, to-ward the end of the eighteenth century, was made com-pulsory for colored women in Louisiana. The need forsome such distinguishing racial badge was, it is said,twofold. Yellow sirens from the French West Indies,flocking to New Orleans, were becoming exceedinglyconspicuous in dress and adornment; furthermore onehears stories of wealthy white men, fathers of octoroonor quadroon girls, who sent these illegitimate daughtersabroad to be educated. The latter, one learns frommany sources, were very often beautiful in the extreme,as were also the Domingan girl

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