English - a good legacy of colonialism

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I BELIEVE that the greatest gift left us by our former colonial masters has been the English Language. But, alas, some of our graduates from the 'University of Papine', who wrote their exams in English, would like students coming after to write theirs in Patois.

And it is a disgrace to the ideals of our cultural development as a people that even our Minister of Education should find room to listen to such reprehensible garbage.

I feel aggrieved to listen to such sub-cultural insanity and wish to make the point that those within us who wish to promote such silliness ought to be instantly fired.

Imagine hearing on our television stations such monstrosity as "Mi a go late fi school again?" what is Jamaica coming to?

I am, etc.,

V. Lloyd Simpson

Elizabeth Avenue

Kingston 10

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