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Originally Posted by MarchHare
What are you basing that on? Many Acadians speak English in the workplace (or have a call center job where they're expected to communicate to callers in either language), but their primary language (i.e. the language they speak at home with friends/family) is French.
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I admit, I have no statistics to back this up. I'm basing this primarily on my personal experience of living in Nova Scotia and being a former member of the Canadian Coast Guard in Dartmouth, where I met many people of Acadian origin. Also my wife's family on her father's side is of Acadian origin and rarely do they speak "Acadian".... as a matter of fact its been so long that he has conversed in the Acadian dialect that he admits that he has a difficult time doing so.