13686: (Chamberlain) re 13680: Lawless: French speakers learning Creole (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

> From: Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>


> Does anyone have any real evidence for this statement?

>> At 08:14 PM 11/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>> It is pretty easy for a French only
>> speaking person to understand Creole after only 2 days Haiti.


Any of the tens of millions of the world's French speakers can tell you
that.  No big mystery.  Most Americans simply don't speak French, so they
don't get the link.


        Greg Chamberlain