Love this Isabelle! And chuckling at "cousine d'la fesse gauche" -- which a former nun taught me when we were trying to figure out what number cousins we are. This SO resonates -- I sometimes wonder at the intersection of the experience of descendants of women of the Acadian diaspora and of enslaved African women.
How do you get the accent into Substack? My work around is to write a name in OpenText, then cut and paste it into Substack.
Someday, perhaps we can figure out where our ancestors intersect.
Isn't it just the most beautiful expression to talk about our cousins? All the heart emojis! RE the accents: why not download a French keyboard to your phone and computer? That's what I do! I can't write my own last name without it!
Love this Isabelle! And chuckling at "cousine d'la fesse gauche" -- which a former nun taught me when we were trying to figure out what number cousins we are. This SO resonates -- I sometimes wonder at the intersection of the experience of descendants of women of the Acadian diaspora and of enslaved African women.
How do you get the accent into Substack? My work around is to write a name in OpenText, then cut and paste it into Substack.
Someday, perhaps we can figure out where our ancestors intersect.
Cousine de la fesse gauche, Ann
Chère cousine de la fesse gauche,
Isn't it just the most beautiful expression to talk about our cousins? All the heart emojis! RE the accents: why not download a French keyboard to your phone and computer? That's what I do! I can't write my own last name without it!
Thanks! I'll look into doing that -- for the computer. I still use a dumb (flip) phone.