Because of this, other languages were pushed out of the area, including French. In William Evan’s article “French-English Literary Dialect in The Grandissimes”, he discusses how the 1880 book by George Washington Cable portrays the people of the time after the Louisiana Purchase. To captivate how willing the people are to switch languages, a character says that there are “men in this city [New Orleans] would rather eat a dog than speak English” (qtd. in Evans 211). This shows how rough the transition is on the Louisiana people; they are extremely unwilling to change. Evans also discusses how Cable observes the phonology of the Creole dialect. One of the changes it makes from Standard American English is the dropping of final consonants, such as the change from “innocent” to “innocen’” (Evans 212). The French language has majorly impacted the Creole dialect, especially in terms of vowel usage and
Because of this, other languages were pushed out of the area, including French. In William Evan’s article “French-English Literary Dialect in The Grandissimes”, he discusses how the 1880 book by George Washington Cable portrays the people of the time after the Louisiana Purchase. To captivate how willing the people are to switch languages, a character says that there are “men in this city [New Orleans] would rather eat a dog than speak English” (qtd. in Evans 211). This shows how rough the transition is on the Louisiana people; they are extremely unwilling to change. Evans also discusses how Cable observes the phonology of the Creole dialect. One of the changes it makes from Standard American English is the dropping of final consonants, such as the change from “innocent” to “innocen’” (Evans 212). The French language has majorly impacted the Creole dialect, especially in terms of vowel usage and