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- UI Cricket Heats Up on Monday
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7 comments:
Learn creole to understand pie in the sky throne speeches. Ca bien triste!
Woy! Good going GG. Any more but definitively smarter reasons to learn creole? That's all you have?
We just keep searching for, and finding, new ways to display our love and affection for our French European culture.
It seems, sometimes, like we are acutally happy that we were enslaved and conlonized. The best thing ever happened to us.
What did we bring from Africa, during slavery and colonization, that we, as a people, still embrace and celebrate today? Nothing!!!
We just keep searching for, and finding, new ways to display our love and affection for our French European culture.
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I don't at all, nor am I ashamed of my outright materialist approach to this issue. No. Never will.
In this modern world, if we have to take time and effort and additionally use resources to learn a language like creole, it must bring meaningful economic returns. Period.
But if, it is taking all those speakers of the variants of the French language from several different areas around the world, all this time to get some kind of uniformity in writing and speaking the broken French, to me it is not worth it. The game is not worth the candle.
It does not matter who says otherwise. It is a lot of tosh to make worthless noises about a minority that benefits from a few paragraphs translated from the English of what at the end of the day still remains a maddeningly confusing set of indigestible economic proposals.
You can only fool some of the people some of the time.
In the real world, St. Lucia's version in the egomaniac throne speech shows, and Martinique's version are all about nationalistic sentiment. No more. No less. As such, they are absolutely divorced from common sense.
Is Creole Economically-Viable?
No, is not. It's garbage.
Is creole economically viable ? I think so from the moment we decide together. the Creole heritage is a real dynamic force. we must decide and act to benefit economically. To suggest otherwise is to act not only against the creole interests locally or regionally but also internationally. this is my intimate conviction. one day we will be strong enough to agree together and from that day Creole will be economically viable. this is my dream, my hope for the international creole community. to live this day we need all the positive energies of our respective creole cultures. we need each of us like international chain of union !!!
Pa ladjé nou ! Nou bizwen zot !
Rodolf Etienne. General-Secretary of the International Organisation Of creole People
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