Proof that "Cajun" = "Brooklynese"

[Mark Odegard]

From: Paul Frank
>I thought that it was common knowledge that the accent of New Orleans
>itself was closer to Brooklynese than to any Southern accent or any other
>accent in Louisiana for that matter.

It is said there is a remarkable 'Hoboken' style accent alive in New
Orleans. The novel, _A Confederacy of Dunces_, by John Kennedy Toole makes
note of this. This book won the Pew-lit-sir prize, and was widely praised
when it first came out. It is genuinely funny, but the ending is
disappointing: the hype, as well as the author's skill, led me to expect the
grandest, funniest free-for-all since Act II of _Meistersinger_.


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