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October 2018
This post was a title, and that's it, but there was a lot here. Written not so long after I had studied Haitian (Creole) and 2 years after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The title is a pun - a joke - but also a sad truth.
Pale in Haitian Creole (or what i like to call Haitian, because it is the language of Haiti) means language. It also means speaking or conversation.
Haitian is a language of double and triple (and more) entendre. Haitians love to speak in adages, cliches, old knowledge.
Haiti's (Ayiti) problem (poblem) is largely a problem of language. Haitians speak Haitian (Creole or kreyol). Rich Haitians are taught French at school when they are young, and hold it against the rest of the population.
This was going to be a post about this central reality of Haiti, but also that Haiti's central problem is honest conversation.
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October 2018
This post was a title, and that's it, but there was a lot here. Written not so long after I had studied Haitian (Creole) and 2 years after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The title is a pun - a joke - but also a sad truth.
Pale in Haitian Creole (or what i like to call Haitian, because it is the language of Haiti) means language. It also means speaking or conversation.
Haitian is a language of double and triple (and more) entendre. Haitians love to speak in adages, cliches, old knowledge.
Haiti's (Ayiti) problem (poblem) is largely a problem of language. Haitians speak Haitian (Creole or kreyol). Rich Haitians are taught French at school when they are young, and hold it against the rest of the population.
This was going to be a post about this central reality of Haiti, but also that Haiti's central problem is honest conversation.
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