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Examples
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"_Miché Vignevielle la plis bon homme di moune_" -- the best man in the world; "_mo pas capabe li fé tracas_" -- I cannot give him trouble.
Madame Delphine George Washington Cable 1884
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Vignevielle la plis bon homme di moune_ '' --- the best man in the world; ` ` _mo pas capabe li f tracas_ '' ---
Old Creole Days 1879
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_ "Çé moune-là, si ou pa lè acheté canari-à dans lanmain moin, moin ké crazé y."
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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-- "'_Oui; mais toutt moune ka pâlé nègue: ça facile_."
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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"_Si ou assise assous pas-lapòte, ou ké pouend doulè toutt moune_."
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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-- "_Toutt bel bois -- toutt bel moune ka alle_," she adds, interpretatively.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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-- 'Pisse ou si quirièse pou vini gàdé baggaïe moune, faut rété là pou dansé' tou. '
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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-- "No, they are not afraid; but they do not want people to know their business" (_pa lè moune ouè zaffai yo_).
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The colored people declare that this monster fruit is the same which grew in Eden upon the fatal tree: _c'est ça mênm qui fai moune ka fai yche conm ça atouelement!
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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_C'est yon bel moune moin fai -- y bel, joli moune! ...
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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