I can’t tell you how awesome it is that one of the top candidates to lead the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a man named T-Joe Savoie. Which is maybe the most Cajun name ever. Savoie is pronounced “sahv-wah,’ by the way. And the “T-” prefix is traditional Cajun for “Junior” — as in Joseph Savoie Jr. (“T” is a corruption of the French “petit,” as in my 31-year-old cousin T-Ron.)
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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