A New Orleans Lexicon - rare 1980 views of New Orleans

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  • @yes4albert
    @yes4albert 16 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I'm really loving all this. Thank God our country is full of such diversity and differences in languages, dialects and expressions. I hope this doesn't change. God bless New Orleans.

  • @gretchenrieth5248
    @gretchenrieth5248 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    The guy by himself in the grey suit is MY DAD! In a million years, I never thought I would see this again. I'd love to know where it came from. I do remember when they would play it on WYES...almost 40 years ago. My sisters and I would get so excited to see it. What a blast from the past. Thanks for posting!

    • @cnam2000
      @cnam2000  5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hi, Gretchen - so happy to hear this! Email us at mail@cnam.com and we can get you the full footage of your dad from 1980!

    • @frankishrebellion9479
      @frankishrebellion9479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      liar lol

    • @Gambino_Crime_Family
      @Gambino_Crime_Family 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Staltrim not everyone is a online troll. He could be speaking the truth.

    • @frankishrebellion9479
      @frankishrebellion9479 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Gambino_Crime_Family most old people are pathological liars to get a kick online. you don't understand.

    • @Gambino_Crime_Family
      @Gambino_Crime_Family 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Staltrim “you don’t understand”, i doubt you know me kid.

  • @alison2649
    @alison2649 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Fascinating! I’m not sure what year this was filmed but I think we all can agree that bell-pepper caught on for the rest of the country. I’m in So-Cal and we call them bell peppers.

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada8923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    This New Orleans, the New Orleans we grew up in is not there anymore. The flavor and soul is gone from our city.

    • @quietlabour491
      @quietlabour491 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just wrote a comment about that before reading yours.Yes it's heart breaking what has been lost.

    • @suziewhattley3917
      @suziewhattley3917 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep. The tourism industry really ruined it when AirBNB came in. RIP NOLA.

    • @angelwishes3213
      @angelwishes3213 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's for sure, slowly dying out

    • @brianmurphy1000
      @brianmurphy1000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just got to move across Jackson

    • @CreoleLadyMarmalade
      @CreoleLadyMarmalade 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You not even lying 😫😫

  • @joshuapigott6267
    @joshuapigott6267 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Days that’s long gone. ❤

  • @jslack8973
    @jslack8973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    the middle is the neutral ground . We make groceries and make sure to get a cold drink and po boy. I wish my city wasn’t dying 😒

    • @jalenjohnson9705
      @jalenjohnson9705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We gotta make home black again and teach the youth our foods and traditions

  • @dapunkof1975
    @dapunkof1975 16 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love your accents, greetings from Houston.

  • @Pippi-Longstocking
    @Pippi-Longstocking ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who’s here because this was just posted on Imgur? I loved this! I’d love to see more videos like this.

  • @mchii6633
    @mchii6633 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We used to sneak in to the Do Drive In when I was a kid. It's a shopping center and condos now.

  • @Alien_Nukes
    @Alien_Nukes 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This video is gold , respect from Chicago. Love these retro videos

  • @nola305
    @nola305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    New Orleans is the only place that calls a water hose or garden hose a "hose pipe", if you go to any other city and call it that, they'll look at you funny, lol. 😂

  • @fqexpat
    @fqexpat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yeah, you rite. Ain't many of us left.

  • @Chipper6811
    @Chipper6811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Glad that my husband's family still has the Yat sound, but every time we go into New Orleans, the dialect is not as strong. Instead, we hear more of the dull monotonous tone that is used in TV so much. Don't forget the overuse and abuse of the word "like", which is used after every single word.

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Because the yat accent is the native-born local white New Orleans accent and New Orleans had a white flight happen and by the 1990’s most of the local whites left for the surrounding suburbs so now the yat accent is strong in the suburbs but weak in the city where it was born because local whites went from being the majority to now a minority in the city and since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, there has been an influx wave of out-of-town whites that has settled the city and they sure don’t have yat accents.

    • @jalenjohnson9705
      @jalenjohnson9705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The new orleans accent has changed but it also depends on where you at in the city somebody from the garden district will not sound like somebody from 9th ward

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jalenjohnson9705 especially now...because this video was taken during a time when New a Orleans was going through a demographic change...

    • @Nullybk
      @Nullybk ปีที่แล้ว

      @@IslenoGutierrez whites started to move out

  • @jordanthomas3346
    @jordanthomas3346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When he asked, "if you wanted everything on a poboy how would you ask for it?" I paused the video and said to myself, "dressed." When I played the video and the guy said dressed I damn near fell over laughing. NOLA.

  • @venom5610
    @venom5610 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this is awesome. a look into the past.

  • @comment3711
    @comment3711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Charming series!

  • @thomasward00
    @thomasward00 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandpa used to take me to Parsols when I was a little kid, those were the best in the city

  • @WILLIAMCHANEL
    @WILLIAMCHANEL 15 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Why on earth would people be ugly about the way we speak here? Just don't speak like us if you don't like it. XO

    • @devilred1971
      @devilred1971 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      WILLIAMCHANEL ya you Right! Dat’s what I’m talkin about!

  • @MarkusDarkscribe
    @MarkusDarkscribe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember when this aired.

  • @hawktalon7890
    @hawktalon7890 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I can relate to that guy that loved stuffed peppers.

  • @moustachetwirlingvillian616
    @moustachetwirlingvillian616 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i love how new orleans people say "make groceries" :)

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting.

  • @eddenoy321
    @eddenoy321 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Lived in France a few years and if "langiappe" ever was a word there, I never heard it used or found anyone who understood it. But it may well have been one a very long time ago.

    • @derlinclaire1778
      @derlinclaire1778 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My dear friend from what I read in the dictionary about the word Lagniappe,they describe it as being an American French word.Which means that it probably originated right here in Louisiana,and not France.Furthermore,it stated that in Lagnipe was derived from the American Spanish expression " La Napa";lit,"The Gift".So,being a locally derived term,Lagniappe may never have been widely used overseas in France,friend.It,s original definition wad that it was a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase.Later,it broadly came to mean something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure; in other words,"Something extra",my dear friend.Merci beaucoup,mon Cher a,i,and God bless you,and kindly keep you well & safe.

    • @derlinclaire1778
      @derlinclaire1778 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I meant "Mon Cher ami".

  • @bthor76
    @bthor76 16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the way the black chick at 5:25 corrects herself about a bump on the head. Her expression is great.

  • @liuchaquan
    @liuchaquan 14 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I grew up saying I got a hickey when I got hit on the head...never knew about the "passion mark" reference til I got some puberty.

    • @jslack8973
      @jslack8973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes lol me too never knew a hickey was a passion mark til I went to the military 😂

  • @microbios8586
    @microbios8586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God bless my grandparents. They say this same shit.

  • @liuchaquan
    @liuchaquan 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to see this all the time on WYES - 12 growing up...what's up w/ this copyright nonsense?!!! Audio has been disabled because there was some un-cleared song?!!! screw yr lawyers! - I want to hear this again!

  • @devilred1971
    @devilred1971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Naturally Nawlins! Making Groceries Schwegmanns style!

  • @blackninja504
    @blackninja504 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    my aunt @6:00

  • @marty-bc2cf
    @marty-bc2cf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Back when the world made sense

    • @joot78
      @joot78 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hon, the world never made a lick of sense, and never will.

  • @SauceGoddessCe
    @SauceGoddessCe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a good time lol

  • @Sinjinator
    @Sinjinator 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    yeah, i thought a Hickey is on yer neck, and gettin hurt on the head is a Bobo.

  • @whoadyyaheardme2751
    @whoadyyaheardme2751 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @2:10 boy our women are sensual lemme tell ya!!

    • @derlinclaire1778
      @derlinclaire1778 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes,the brunette lady st 2:10 was quite pretty,one would say.God bless her.

  • @LenoraRoseen
    @LenoraRoseen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I cannot discern what the woman is saying at 3:57. Can someone please enlighten me?

    • @theladyniek
      @theladyniek ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Sandwiches for Alvarez?" She's trying to find the table to take them to

  • @tonywalton1052
    @tonywalton1052 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wheyat bra

  • @7thWardCreole
    @7thWardCreole 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait, what? It’s not called a hickey? Then what do you call it?

  • @charjl96
    @charjl96 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only accent I don't recognize is the narrator's

  • @downsouth420
    @downsouth420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One thing that pisses me off is when people say "poor boy". It's po' boy. My family's been in New Orleans for 150 years, we call it po boy.

    • @Dragoncam13
      @Dragoncam13 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everyone that lives in SWLA call it a Po'boy too

    • @terryadcock3574
      @terryadcock3574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My former boss was old money Uptown, and he called them poor boys. The Uptowners have their own, much more proper and refined, dialect.

    • @terryadcock3574
      @terryadcock3574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dannetterousseau4095 he is "not informed" because he called them poor boys? That actually IS the original name. My late grandmother, born in 1905 and definitely not from money or Uptown, called them that.

  • @DNSKansas
    @DNSKansas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They're called bell peppers in other parts of the United States, not just NOLA.

    • @terryadcock3574
      @terryadcock3574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn't used to be. Years ago (before 1980 or so), they were just peppers, or green peppers, or sometimes 'sweet' peppers. I watched national cooking shows and had cookbooks from outside New Orleans back then, and I remember.

    • @angelwishes3213
      @angelwishes3213 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      stuff travels quickly like cultural exchanges, i.e. a bunch of stuff probably originated from New Orleans and likewise for other cultures

  • @johnwolf4447
    @johnwolf4447 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you ever go to New Orleans don't bring cash because the police will seize it