lol thank you for this video. I was stationed in Ft Polk back in the mid 80s. I was fluent in Parisian French at the time and thought I could get around Cajun country. I'd speak to some of them and they'd look at me like I had grown a second head. I'd heard every one of those expressions, though.
I thought Port Arthur was the coonass capital of the Golden triangle! I know the went help the homesickness much, but you're not missing much beyond heartache and bitterness down here these days. East of the Sabine is still recovering from their disasters and West of the Sabine is still trying to remove storm debris & get any sort of meaningful disaster assistance going. Keep your memories close to heart because being here now is like walking into a familiar dystopia..
Hey Kent, I remember you from our LSU/APO days! You were (still are) funny! I know this video is from a few years back, but happy to see it here. Love it.
Very funny, hilarious actually!!! I'm Romanian and I understand the word coullion because it's a latin based word. Romanian has a lot of French words since it's one of the Romance languages. It is largely a latin based language. I think we have a Romanian version of the word coullion. It's cucui, pronounced coocooy. When you have a cucui, it means you have a big bump when you get hurt. Well if someone tells you, "Ai cazut pe cucui?" They mean, "You don't get it, do you?!" So I totally understand what he's saying.
This word comes from latin : "coleus". It has become "couille" in french. It is the same prononciation in french cajun and in most of the creole langages as in 97-4 (Reunion Island Indian Ocean).
Coullion is the correct way, but its also popular to use spellings that are closer phonetically to english. we also sometimes write "chere" as "sha" and so forth
Both spellings are used, in my circles about equally. Our colloquialisms don't exactly have standardized written forms & we love seeing how creatively we can use the Latin alphabet
***** Would you understand Haitian Creole? I understand what you wrote I would say it differently. It would like "Mwen menm tou, mwen konprann mo sa a"
I'm not certain about this but I think it would be spelled "couillon" in Cajun French if Cajun French was a written language. But since it was only an oral tradition when Cajuns try and spell their words they often make approximations based on how it sounds when it’s pronounced. Could you shed some light on this? Oh by the way I love your Cajun and Creole cultures in Louisiana. Hope you guys take well to preserve it.
You are right. It is spelt "COUILLON" in french. I do not dare to explain to you the origin of this word. I would be taken for very rude. It is interesting to discover that this word already existed 3 centuries ago when the French came down the Mississippi river.
Cajun here - you spell it however the other person would understand it. Either way works, sha. Spelling words as they are sounded out, I feel, is part of our modern Cajun and Cajun English.
Cajun French is separated from Parisian French by about 450 years, so naturally words are going to be pronounced and spelled differently. Neither is "correct", much like with Haitian Kriol and Quebecois each dialect is considered on its own terms, with its own spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.
Thanks for the prompt response. Good to see some knowledgeable and rational people actually do exist on UA-cam. Not everybody posts silly misinformed drivel like the stuff that others have posted below!!!
The Académie française largely predates the settlement of Cajuns and standard French was always the proper written language in Nouvelle France. Québécois is written exactly as normal French, they only have some peculiarities when speaking ;) Haïtian créole is an entirely different language by now.
I really needed this tonight. Humour is the best we all need it. We have Acadian French in the Atlantic Provinces. Depending the area you may be in the French accent is very different. This was one of the favourite things loved in my job as a salesman. The different cultures we have. Scottish, Irish,German,Dutch,French. We have a tremendous mixture of people, The signing, music, and dancing. And customs all so unique in every community.
"...higher than the price of gasoline..." LOL! too funny! You Cajuns ain't much different than us West Virginia Hillbillies. The language is different but the culture and humor is very similar. At least you 'uns are not as obese as WV and MS
I am sorry do you all but the greatest Cajun comedian day ever was was Dave Pettijean you all need to go look him up he was the greatest ain’t nobody telling me no never mind
This comedian’s surname is Gonsoulin. The Gonsoulin family arrived to Louisiana from Marseille in southern France before the arrival of the Acadians. Gonsoulin is not an Acadian surname and thus not Cajun. The Louisiana born Gonsoulin family were French Creoles (the original white Louisiana settlers of French and Québécois ancestries).
See. Don't know if you are or not but that's a response I would expect from an actual Cajun. Not these two idiots in the other comments getting offended at every little thing. Mostly made up things just being offended for the sake of being offended. I am Acadien on my mother's side but I wasn't raised in that culture. I've had several Cajun friends and without exception they were all friendly and easy to be around.
Don't know how old this video is, but if he graduated in 83 that would make him 56 years old. He's either lying, this video is 20 years old or he's a Couyon, lol.
Oh my goodness 😳😍! It's 6:30 am in Biloxi making red beans and sausage. I had to politely tell my 92 year old Momma not to say, " Dem coullons are coming to the casinos this weekend. Be hard to find a good machine. " OMG almost cut my finger with my filet knife from laughing 😅🤣😂
Loved the clip Kent! And I love you tube. I'm not exactly sure how I done it but I started out with Bill Withers singing Lean on Me went to Hazel Dickens singing the the Songcather, to Appalachian English to YOU! Glad I took the journey!
A white man speaking French in an African American accent.... I'm so confused. It's like meeting an Asian with the name Daquan that speaks with a spanish accent.
His accent crazy thick.... Sounds southern, Latin, and french rolled up in one... Love it....
I’m Cajun by blood through my mother. His accent is mild compared to some of my kin.
One he sounds exactly like every one of my relatives and two French is a Latin based language, just like Italian, Spanish, and Romanian.
Dats Acadiana for ya shaa
i guess I'm kind of randomly asking but does anybody know a good site to watch new series online?
@Saul Sincere i use Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
lol thank you for this video. I was stationed in Ft Polk back in the mid 80s. I was fluent in Parisian French at the time and thought I could get around Cajun country. I'd speak to some of them and they'd look at me like I had grown a second head. I'd heard every one of those expressions, though.
Makes me homesick. I'm from Beaumont TX which should be in Louisiana and my late husband was from Lafayette LA.
I thought Port Arthur was the coonass capital of the Golden triangle! I know the went help the homesickness much, but you're not missing much beyond heartache and bitterness down here these days. East of the Sabine is still recovering from their disasters and West of the Sabine is still trying to remove storm debris & get any sort of meaningful disaster assistance going. Keep your memories close to heart because being here now is like walking into a familiar dystopia..
My dad was Cajun, love your show! ❤️🦐❤️
Hey Kent, I remember you from our LSU/APO days! You were (still are) funny! I know this video is from a few years back, but happy to see it here. Love it.
Very funny, hilarious actually!!! I'm Romanian and I understand the word coullion because it's a latin based word. Romanian has a lot of French words since it's one of the Romance languages. It is largely a latin based language. I think we have a Romanian version of the word coullion. It's cucui, pronounced coocooy. When you have a cucui, it means you have a big bump when you get hurt. Well if someone tells you, "Ai cazut pe cucui?" They mean, "You don't get it, do you?!" So I totally understand what he's saying.
This word comes from latin : "coleus". It has become "couille" in french. It is the same prononciation in french cajun and in most of the creole langages as in 97-4 (Reunion Island Indian Ocean).
Don't know how they write "couyon" in Cajun, but in the International French Community it's written couillon.
Coullion I believe
Coullion is the correct way, but its also popular to use spellings that are closer phonetically to english. we also sometimes write "chere" as "sha" and so forth
Cajuns usually spell it couyon.
@@snattler no we don’t.
Both spellings are used, in my circles about equally. Our colloquialisms don't exactly have standardized written forms & we love seeing how creatively we can use the Latin alphabet
I can hear the French in his accent, crazy it reminds me of a Quebecois accent, but more subtle.
My Grandfather was Acadian from New Brunswick, Canada. He had somewhat of what sounded like a milder Louisiana Acadian accent.
@@snattler they share da same roots of acadian
Chicoutimi!
It’s so crazy how we have so many different ‘ENGLISH’ speaking ppl n USA! I would not have understood him without captions!
"so the person that graduated last in my class - das a coullón!"
I'm from Seychelles Indian ocean we speak creol too and kouyon means and spoken the same way
This is Cajun not Creol and it's spelled "Cooyon".
well it means the same thing and it sounds the same hah.
dodmoful
it's spelled "couyon."
How close is your Creole to the one spoken in the Caribbean?
***** Would you understand Haitian Creole? I understand what you wrote I would say it differently. It would like "Mwen menm tou, mwen konprann mo sa a"
I'm not certain about this but I think it would be spelled "couillon" in Cajun French if Cajun French was a written language. But since it was only an oral tradition when Cajuns try and spell their words they often make approximations based on how it sounds when it’s pronounced. Could you shed some light on this? Oh by the way I love your Cajun and Creole cultures in Louisiana. Hope you guys take well to preserve it.
You are right. It is spelt "COUILLON" in french. I do not dare to explain to you the origin of this word. I would be taken for very rude.
It is interesting to discover that this word already existed 3 centuries ago when the French came down the Mississippi river.
That's exactly right
It's Acadian as well, not Cajun.
Cajun here - you spell it however the other person would understand it. Either way works, sha. Spelling words as they are sounded out, I feel, is part of our modern Cajun and Cajun English.
What would you know, you're a Morgan, you're as cajun as Justin Wilson
I should know, I'm a Broussard.
It's Acadian. Not Cajun
It's also Cher, not Sha. Morgan...
You're a coullion. Speak one line of Acadian French, you poser.
Wooimbouttomakeanameformyselfhere
Extremely funny CLEAN jokes. Loved it
Cajun French is separated from Parisian French by about 450 years, so naturally words are going to be pronounced and spelled differently. Neither is "correct", much like with Haitian Kriol and Quebecois each dialect is considered on its own terms, with its own spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.
Plus Acadian French consists of Basque, mic mac, scott, african, and choctaw. And french. It's a patoir. I know. I'm a Broussard.
I know the full history.
I am related to Beausolleil Broussard.
@@JBmusicart Isnt it Mi'kmaq?
@@JBmusicart There are no words of any other language origin, besides French.
Thanks for the prompt response. Good to see some knowledgeable and rational people actually do exist on UA-cam. Not everybody posts silly misinformed drivel like the stuff that others have posted below!!!
Voilà comment cela s'écrit en français : couillon.
Et avec un S à la fin quand ils sont plusieurs : couillons
in Argentina "culiao"
Means testicle right?
@@taticalteacher couillon is an idiot, culiao (proper spelling culeado) means someone who has been violated in the arse.
David Kirk un couillon is a stupid guy, it is used in southern France
The Académie française largely predates the settlement of Cajuns and standard French was always the proper written language in Nouvelle France.
Québécois is written exactly as normal French, they only have some peculiarities when speaking ;)
Haïtian créole is an entirely different language by now.
I really needed this tonight. Humour is the best we all need it. We have Acadian French in the Atlantic Provinces. Depending the area you may be in the French accent is very different. This was one of the favourite things loved in my job as a salesman. The different cultures we have. Scottish, Irish,German,Dutch,French. We have a tremendous mixture of people, The signing, music, and dancing. And customs all so unique in every community.
A couillon is quit literally a small couille (testicule). It's just an idiot (with an affectionate turn).
Wooooimbouttamakeanameformyselfere
His accent is normal sounding to me. A bit milder than many probably from spending time outside of Opelousas
"...higher than the price of gasoline..." LOL! too funny! You Cajuns ain't much different than us West Virginia Hillbillies. The language is different but the culture and humor is very similar. At least you 'uns are not as obese as WV and MS
ahahahahah aw chereeeeeeee
At least he graduated.
I’m very well was verrry depressed but not anymore.
couillon from what I've seen
This guy is funny, but not as funny as Steve Verret or Johnathan Perry INHO.
...that joke about "If you don't have a couyon in your family..." musta struck home, eh?
I am sorry do you all but the greatest Cajun comedian day ever was was Dave Pettijean you all need to go look him up he was the greatest ain’t nobody telling me no never mind
Awesome, the ones with thumbs down , Dey’s couyoin
this the accent i was lookin for!
i sure as hell know what a cujon means :) dunno how to spell it tho, but my granny calls me dat all da time :D
Acadian. That's how you spell it.
Here after watching deadpool and wolverine lol
Go Belmont!!!!
So a coullion is the cajun word for a dingus.
This comedian’s surname is Gonsoulin. The Gonsoulin family arrived to Louisiana from Marseille in southern France before the arrival of the Acadians. Gonsoulin is not an Acadian surname and thus not Cajun. The Louisiana born Gonsoulin family were French Creoles (the original white Louisiana settlers of French and Québécois ancestries).
Sounds like Bobby Bouche
Wooimbouttomakeanameformyselfhere
please da Cajun french is different the reg french you will wear your swlf out thinking just set back an enjoy the Cajun an creole is different also
its just as different as english here and english in England.
I speak french from louisiana and I can talk to anyone from the french world.
See. Don't know if you are or not but that's a response I would expect from an actual Cajun. Not these two idiots in the other comments getting offended at every little thing. Mostly made up things just being offended for the sake of being offended. I am Acadien on my mother's side but I wasn't raised in that culture. I've had several Cajun friends and without exception they were all friendly and easy to be around.
Don't know how old this video is, but if he graduated in 83 that would make him 56 years old. He's either lying, this video is 20 years old or he's a Couyon, lol.
It's VHS
The year is given under the video: 2009. And no he's not lying; I knew him personally in college. He's not a couillon, but he is funny!
@@lumine1111 That is right way to spell it, couillon! Thank you!
He is making me homesick.
Oh my goodness 😳😍! It's 6:30 am in Biloxi making red beans and sausage. I had to politely tell my 92 year old Momma not to say, " Dem coullons are coming to the casinos this weekend. Be hard to find a good machine. " OMG almost cut my finger with my filet knife from laughing 😅🤣😂
We use it in ou language to its kouyon means stupid just like he explains 😂🤣 first time I hear that word in order country lol
Sweet Jesus, 12 fn years ! Do you all live in the past Maybe Amos and Andy ? …
"Couyon (Couillon)" is "ass hole" in French. "Fool" in Cajun.
Great stuff
I’m from south east Louisiana north of New Orleans I think we’re more creole than Cajun but it’s a lot the same
Gambit
VL G I'm here for the same shit! Gambiiiit!!!!
VL G: Naw Gambit's voice is sexier
and coullon mean fool
In the great tradition of Justin Wilson, I guaranty.
This was funny 🤷🏾♂️
My daddy was from Opelousas!
KYOO!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Aaeeeeee !!! 👍🏼👍🏼⚜️🦞🐊🦌🦆
Loved the clip Kent! And I love you tube. I'm not exactly sure how I done it but I started out with Bill Withers singing Lean on Me went to Hazel Dickens singing the the Songcather, to Appalachian English to YOU! Glad I took the journey!
Poor Willie, he had to share.
So so funny, great job!
Does anybody know the year this was recorded?
Spelling words as they are sounded out ? How heretic. Now you really have left France for good ;)
2009
*creole
Ouis.
they sound Jamaican
Nah. Jamaicans speak an English based Creole, they are closer to people from Martinique, St Lucia and Haiti.
I dont think they sound a lot alike, but i can see a slight similarity.
dave chappelle is nothing
I'm a go ahead and call bullshit on that
what??? dave chappelle louis ck will ferrell sre nothing compared to this comedic semigod
+peter klaven he's a b- comedian at best
no im sorry i was laughing but while i was laughing i also cried, cried with passion and laughter, sorrow and madness laughter and evil
This makes me lose all faith in humanity.
Connor King fuck off this is our culture
That's cause you're number one coullion!
How can u just say somethin' like that about folks' culture? Smh...
A white man speaking French in an African American accent.... I'm so confused. It's like meeting an Asian with the name Daquan that speaks with a spanish accent.
You got it all wrong, that's why you're confused.
Acadians are multicultural
The Acadian language comes from it's diverse roots of African, mic mac, scottish, basque, French, and Choctaw.
Acadian French is a patoir
It’s a Cajun Accent not a white man pretending to be black.
this is just terrible.....not at all funny
The Clinton bit made me blow beer out of my nose. Thanks.