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#2712: Haitians urged to aid census_ A comment
From:Jepiem@aol.com
There's one thing that people aren't willing to admit or say, it is that in
general, haitian people who can't read and understand and fill out a form in
english can't do it in any other language. Creole hasn't been a written and
codified language for that long and, even now, the creolophiles to the
countrary, there isn['t yet a generally accepted codified creole orthograph
that at least fifty per cent of the population can read, for the simple
reason that fifty per cent of the population can't read proficiently enough
to understand a complicated form. And that's where those "uncounted" ones
come from. I would venture to say that most of them would more quicly and
better understand a form printed in englisgh. So there needs to be some other
ways than just "bureaucratic forms" or "papiers" as they would say to reach
these people and count them.
Math Jerome