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You are certainly right that Creole is not the cause of Haiti's problems.

But encouraging the learning of English as a second language is positive strategy.

English is not just the language of business, science, technology, engineering and most of the international tourism industry among other fields, it is more and more commonly used as the language which non-native speakers of other languages use to speak to each other.

When tomorrow's Haitians are doing business deals with Chinese, Indonesians, Russians, Arabs Mexicans, Brazilians, Indians and Americans, English will be the language that both parties will use. English gives them access to more of the worlds satellite TV channels, movies, Internet content and scientific documents than any other language.

Saul Wall, December 24 2008, 12:37 AM

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I am somehow puzzled by your sense of denial and your self destructive behavior in attacking facts and statistics. I... read more >
Yves Salamanque Gren Son Nen, 11-Dec-08 1:22 pm
Lavaud You said "I have never meant to hurt you by calling you Tiba the Icon." CORRECTION: I never said that I was... read more >
Tiba, 11-Dec-08 1:30 pm
Tiba, the Cape Verdi islands also have a Creole that is very similar to ours. It's kind of strange because they were... read more >
Linda, 11-Dec-08 6:33 pm
Linda, Nice to see you again. I thought you had left us forever out of frustration and disgust, but you're still here... read more >
Tiba, 11-Dec-08 7:20 pm
No, Tiba, I didn't leave. I just had some deadlines to deal with. And since the blog was polluted with very low... read more >
Linda, 11-Dec-08 10:21 pm
Linda, I say Amen e Insiswatil to that? Speaking Creole in all and every level of the Haitian society must be made... read more >
Tiba, 12-Dec-08 5:54 am
You are certainly right that Creole is not the cause of Haiti's problems. But encouraging the learning of English as a... read more >
Saul Wall, 24-Dec-08 12:37 am
Once upon a time it was Latin or maybe Greek, then it became French, now it is English, and in about a century no one... read more >
Rft, 24-Dec-08 5:21 am
Saul Do you realize none of these countries you mentioned on the list speak English as their second official language... read more >
Tiba, 24-Dec-08 6:14 am
Saul, there is absolutely no reason to add another issue to an already complicated problem. We already have major... read more >
Linda, 24-Dec-08 11:43 am
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