Rum tale

[Sue U]

And my response to hearing someone use it would be something like maudit ciboire d'hostie de Christ en tabarnacle - try putting that through Google translate and see if you get anything meaningful.

Since I learned to swear in Quebecois I do it All. The. Time. It's hilarious. Tabarnak!

[Econoline]

Wiki, she say

The expression Laissez les bons temps rouler (alternatively Laissez les bon temps rouler, Laissez le bon temps rouler, Laisser les bons temps rouler and Laisser le bon temps rouler, French pronunciation: ​[lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Cajun French phrase. The phrase is a calque* of the English phrase "let the good times roll"; that is a word for word translation of the English phrase into Cajun French.

This phrase is often mentioned in Louisiana and around the Gulf Coast where Mardi Gras is celebrated. It is well known touristically around the United States from television and radio.[1]

It was said by Chi Chi DeVayne as her entrance quote on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.

It is not an expression used in other French-speaking countries.

* (In linguistics, a calque [/kælk/] or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language. For instance, the English word "skyscraper" led to the French gratte-ciel, the Spanish rascacielos, the Portuguese arranha-céus, the Italian grattacielo, and to similar calques in dozens of other languages.)

[Big RR]

Regional variations are very common in language; I can attest that the Spanish my wife's family (from Puerto Rico) speaks is very different from the Castilian Spanish I learned in high school and college. Some differences are because of English influences, others are more obscure. I imagine the same is the case here. While a purist might say "this is not French", I imagine a local French speaker in Louisiana would strongly disagree. Just like I would never tell a Puerto Ricans that they are not speaking Spanish, I would not tell a Cajun that they are not speaking French.

[Crackpot]

you forget French Canadians tell the French they're not speaking French.

[dales]

My late father was criticized by Parisians for speaking French he picked up in Algeria during WW2.

[Big RR]

And I would bet many (especially Trump supporters) would make the argument that "urban English" as spoken by many minorities is not English.

[Bicycle Bill]

And I would bet many (especially Trump supporters) would make the argument that "urban English" as spoken by many minorities is not English.

Personally I feel it is not actually "English", but since to do so is to be racist and 'unwoke' — and since it seems to have more staying power than the 'jive' of the '50s or other linguistic fads such as the 'Valley Girl' trend of the '80s — I will accept that is is a variant or a 'related' form of English among a specific group of English speakers...

... sort of like Pennsylvania Dutch is a variant of/related to German or Yiddish is a variant of/related to Hebrew.

And believe me, I am the furthest thing from a Trump supporter one is likely to encounter.  I loathe the man so much I wouldn't waste the time to cross the street to piss on him ... not even if he was on fire.

-"BB"-

[Sue U]

Any language that is spoken by living populations is going to evolve and have dialects, which other speakers of the same language might find unintelligible (without sufficient exposure and practice). None of them is "wrong" anyore than any type of evolution is "wrong."

... sort of like Pennsylvania Dutch is a variant of/related to German or Yiddish is a variant of/related to Hebrew.

Yiddish is a variant of German, augmented with some Polish, Russian and Hebrew vocabulary. But still basically one of a number of German dialects like the "low German" variants.

[Big RR]

True Sue, and many people who are fairly tolerant of most dialects get extra angry at a few which anger them a lot; sometime this is due to people of certain groups they hate speaking that way, sometimes it has to do an insistence of the purity of a language, but getting upset over it makes little sense.

Going back to my wife and her family, my wife grew up speaking Puerto Rican Spanish at home; she took one Spanish class in college that was taught by a serious jerk who constantly criticized the way she spoke calling it "Kitchen language"; he spoke flawless Castilian Spanish (even with the lisp, a habit I also picked up when I speak Spanish), but apparently to him it was some sort of class thing (she made it through that class and only took Latin American centered Spanish courses afterwards); the funny thing is when I do speak Spanish around my wife's relatives (which I avoid unless someone in the group does not speak English or I am in Puerto Rico (when in Rome...)), they make fun of me and suggest I am putting on airs (probably because of the lisp)--the prejudice goes both ways.