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Kouri-vini, or KV in linguist shorthand, is the name that certain proponents of Louisiana Creole, LC, have adopted for that language. It is different from Louisiana or Cajun French, which is a variety of French, LF.

It is hard to explain without getting technical, but the grammar of the two languages are different.  “I do it” is “je le fais” in LF, but “mo fe li” in KV. In other words, LF is SOV (subject-object-verb) while KV is SVO (gvsubject-verb-object).

To which must be added: “Creole” as a people or group refers to the “mixed-race” descendents of the inhabitants before the 1803 purchase of the French  colony by the US.

Creoles included “free persons of color”, slaves (or enslaved persons, as the contemporary jargon has it), and Cajuns or descendents of the refugees from French Canada after the English victory in 1759. They were usually Catholic and French-speaking, as opposed to the new majority Anglo-Protestants both black and white, and Indians, a few of whom still speak French, apparently.

That, st least, is my take on it ….

I’m not ML, but I do know that line pretty well. In fact, during the period of time I was politically active  I was what I  thought of a Menchevik.

Here,  for example, is a document for which I was responsible as VP (Communication) of the Quebec NDP (75-77). With intro but in French only.

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?page_id=3014

“Bluntly put, characterizing gentrification as a racial/cultural problem leads directly to easily accommodated demands for equal-opportunity access to the plunder that is the foundation of the regime of relentless upward redistribution.”

As my days are increasingly numbered, one curiosity about the future, which shall remain unknown to me, still harbour is whether or not there’ll be a revolution which would reverse the “regime  of relentless upward distribution.” The odds seem against it

In my senior year I hit and killed a drunken pedestrian. Fortunately he was not just a drunken person but a well-known drunk who had been staggering down the street (witnesses said), and I was not charged. But the reaction among my community of that time was telling and formative.  

I had not been religious prior to this event and I became even more virulently anti-religious when I received several phone calls from local Baptists, who offered me the solace of Jesus’s love. The first call angered me, but I didn’t express the depths of my anger. When others began to call, almost in a chain, I exploded and began cursing their pure effrontery and hypocrisy.

The reaction of the high school bullies was different.  I was vested with an aura of respect. I had after all killed someone, more then they, hopefully, would ever do. 

Memrise Kouri-vini

Memrise

Ti Liv Kréyòl

Google Woolaroo

Ti Liv Kreyol Second Edition.pdf

Tafè tout à fait?

Talè tout à l’heure

Ojordi çé premyé jou printem! Mo paré pou bon tem épi krébis!Today is the first day of spring!  I’m ready for good weather and crabs!

Jodi a se premye jou prentan an!  Mwen pare pou bon tan ak krab! Ede m sou sa.  Isit ou di  .  La ou di krébis. Krébis KV </=  kribich HC (ayisyin).  Crabs or shrimp?

Mwen mande paske 30 ane de sa mwen te pibliye yon moso ki rele Kribich, «cribiche», ecrévisse. Link,

L’Avenir  de l’Éloge de la Créolité. In Convergences et divergences dans les littératures francophones, Daniel Deltel, ed. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp.  170-181, 1992.

Granmoun blan isit la.  Ozetazini ak Kanada, pa janm mande yo nan lang angle oswa franse.  Pafwa an Frans, paske mwen gen yon aksan ibrid.  Mwen toujou mande, si kirye, depi mwen se yon xenofil.

Old white man here. In the US and Canada, never get asked in English or French. Sometimes in France, because I have a hybrid accent. I always ask, if curious, since I’m a xenophile. 

Granmoun blan isit la

Çé byin fars ékan moun menas mwin ak “mo va pa swiv twa non plis” 🤣, ok… mo fou pa mal! Vouzòt pa bezwinn anonsé to va kité konm léropor. Mo va pa vini trist ékan vouzòt kit. Zòt ap pensé zòt importan ou kèkshoj? Non 😅 

It’s a joke when people threaten me with “I won’t follow three other names” 🤣, ok… I’m not crazy!  You don’t have to announce that you’re going.  I will not be sad because of you.  Are you thinking about your importance some days?  No 😅

   

Sa fèm nan betiz lè moun menase m ak “m pap suiv twa lòt non” 🤣, ok… mwen pa fou!  Ou pa bezwen anonse ke ou pral ale.  Mwen pap vin tris poutèt ou.  Èske w ap panse sou enpòtans ou kèk jou?  Non 😅

Mo las ap netwayé mô lamézon shak jou 🤣. Mô piti-yé toujou ap kassé tou ça dan mô lamézon. Mo paré pou mô pli jènn gaçon kouri a lékol paske ti boug-çila konm Tasmanian Devil 🤣. Zòt… mo linm piti-çalayé mé mô las 😅

It’s a joke when people threaten me with “I won’t follow three other names” 🤣, ok… I’m not crazy!  You don’t have to announce that you’re going.  I will not be sad because of you.  Are you thinking about your importance some days?  No 😅

Se yon blag lè moun menase m ak “m pap swiv twa lòt non” 🤣, ok… mwen pa fou!  Ou pa bezwen anonse ke ou prale.  Mwen pap tris poutèt ou.  Èske w ap panse sou enpòtans ou kèk jou?  Non 😅