Weda wi Mos Tiich Patwa aar Nat!

[Bricktop]

They don't study Hungarian (or Magyar) in Hungary? They are the only ones who speak it.

They also have 32.86 billion cubic meters of natural gas. They can feed themselves.

[Mosiah]

Ansa di man question, man!

[Bricktop]

You mastered tangents in high school, didn't you, Brickie!

I don't get his point. Do they teach English in English speaking countries? Yes they do. What's the point? Are we preparing our students to sell fish and festival @ Hellshire or are we preparing them for the global marketplace?

[Mosiah]

They don't study Hungarian (or Magyar) in Hungary? They are the only ones who speak it.

[Mosiah]

You mastered tangents in high school, didn't you, Brickie!

[Mosiah]

Can't wait for this response. Brickie? Lazie? Sass? Unnu tek lunch same time?

[Bricktop]

Do they teach English in English speaking countries ???

Do you have a point? What percentage of the world speaks Jamaican patois? Does any nation other than Jamaica speak our patois?

[Muadib]

Do they teach English in English speaking countries ???

This is getting surreal.

[Bricktop]

we need to teach patois as a language...that is what i am saying.

Gamma doesn't every Jamaican or person who has lived in Jamaica for at least 6 months already know how to speak and read patois?

[Muadib]

Yuh evah tek a foreign language ?

Eidda yuh accept that Jamaica is not an english speaking country or not..

After yuh decide the rest should be obvious..

[Gamma]

we need to teach patois as a language...that is what i am saying.

[Bricktop]

?!!!!

dem teach english in schools in england? spanish in spain? french in france?

Not following you. The answer is yes but do they teach it in a different language?

[Gamma]

?!!!!

dem teach english in schools in england? spanish in spain? french in france?

[Bricktop]

And how will that help patois speakers better communicate with English speakers? Yuh gonna teach English in patois?

[Muadib]

Please indicate where the stress is on teaching patois ?

The key issue is communicating information and concepts in the most effective way possible given the existing situation.

I suspect however before one can properly teach in Patois you must first arrive at a standard and propogate such standard.. oral and written..