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  • Bandera Brandt Poteet, Texas With respects and apologies to Mr. Reinhold Aman concerning my letter, I submit that I would not need dictionaries to explain conasse; I quoted Bruant because he still is an authority in argot; literary words do change meanings in French, and formerly obscene words often lose their connotations with age; but argot words might date (many of them have become obsolete within my lifetime), however they cannot enlarge their meaning.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4 1986

  • I have no competence in Cajun speech, but conasse or connasse does not mean ` prostitute 'in French slang.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1 1985

  • The term "coonass" apparently originated during World War Two when French poilus, amused at the Louisiana Frenchman's patois, called him a conasse, slang for "prostitute."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3 1984

  • (another synonym, along with "stupid bitch," quoted by Mr. Aman) but conasse does not refer to their profession, rather to their I. Q.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4 1986

  • Re conasse, I find confirmation in Aristide Bruant's Dictionnaire Francais-Argot, edition by Flammarion, Paris,

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1 1985

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