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Linguist Michel DeGraff on a quest to give Haitian Creole its due as a respected language

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Dieezah
Dieezah
Martinique
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Tell our colonialist mother to let go of us... May 14, 2011

This state of things, mentionned in the above article regarding Haitian creole, is an awful token of the reluctance former colonial empires show in the "letting go of the slaves" process. The same state of things remains in the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and in the French Guyana region. French speakers of creole culture, even when they prove to be the best in their mastery of the French language and professional fields are still being considered by continental French speakers (sometimes w... See more
This state of things, mentionned in the above article regarding Haitian creole, is an awful token of the reluctance former colonial empires show in the "letting go of the slaves" process. The same state of things remains in the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and in the French Guyana region. French speakers of creole culture, even when they prove to be the best in their mastery of the French language and professional fields are still being considered by continental French speakers (sometimes with a lesser grasp of French language complexity) with little better than contempt. French-based Creole speakers have moved on from French language to create a new cultural and linguistic universe with it's own web of complexity. It used to be a spoken dialect. Now it is a language with many variants. There are writers of Creole, be it for poetry, songwriting, novels. There remains the difficulty to make most people accept that Creole can also convey more serious matters in writing. ▲ Collapse
 


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