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Blog post by Tatán
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Who is Tatán? ‘Tatán’ happens to be my favorite nickname. My full name is Antoine Pierre-Paul. Continue reading “Tatán (Antoine Pierre-Paul)” »

Linguistic & Cultural Pearls

Here, you will find Linguistic and Cultural Pearls…
Bèl pèl m rekòlte pou nou…

Weekly posting of commentaries on linguistic and cultural ‘pearls’ collected from different sources: the streets, the schools, the bodegas, the Haitian radios broadcasting on the internet, etc. The focus being on the ‘instrumentalization’ of the language.

Gen tande. Gen koute. Ou ka tande san ou pa ap koute. Men si n vle pran bon son, fò nou mete zòrèy nou an twonpèt pou nou koute byen. Se on aktivite m eseye fè souvan. Kòm rezilta, sa pèmèt mwen rekòlte kèk bèl ti pèl, bèl ti bijou pawoli pou m pataje avèk nou.

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Blog post by Roro and Tatán
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Gen de fwa ou konn wè on moun chita pou kont li on kote, epi li fè on ti souri, osnon li pete on sèl eklari. Ou ka konprann se on atak foli l ap fè—“Foli pran moun tout jan”, se sa nou di—men se on souvni k ap satiyèt lespri li. On souvni, si l ta pataje l avèk ou, ou menm tou, ou ta pete pwòp eklari pa ou, paske souvni sa a, ta bay machin memwa pa ou on kout mannivèl, fè l pati tankou on chen fou ki te chita nan on nich fonmi, osnon on chwal galipòt k ap boulinen nan gran savann, apre li fin plen pans li… Fò ou konn la pou ou al la, Timal! Continue reading “Tan ale, tan pa tounen… men nou gen souvni” »

Tout souvni nou, soti nan timoun rive nan granmoun.
Remembrances of things past, from childhood to adulthood.

This is a series of original blog posts dealing with ‘remembrances of things past’.  (i.e. aprann monte bekàn, rache dan, pran piki, ti Janvye, mès minui, koupe panzou, fè chenè…)

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Name	Antoine Pierre-Paul (Tatán is my favorite nickname, along with Pepe and Paulo.)
Date of Birth	May 23, 1956
Place of Birth	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Current Location	New York, USA
Height	5′ 11″
Weight	185 lbs.
Ethnicity	Haitian/Black
Hair	Black, slowly going gray…
Eyes	Black
Eyesight	Bad, very bad… from reading the PC screen and the huge collection of Sheet Music I have.
Primary Education	Ecole Darius Denis
Secondary Education	Petit Séminaire Collège St. Martial
Post-Secondary Education	Faculté des Sciences de L’Université d’Etat d’Haiti
Occupation	Freelance Graphic Artist
Favorite Software Platform	Ubuntu Linux. (I have a copy of Windows Vista for Music and Gaming purposes)
Computers	Various Desktop PCs running Windows 3.1, 98, XP, Vista and many flavors of Linux (Ubuntu, Knoppix, Kanotix, Slackware, etc.)
Sexual Orientation	Heterosexual
Relationship Status	Recently Widowed
Kids	Two daughters, Joelle and Amanda Noelle.
Siblings	Marie-Joseph (sister), Anthony & Henri-Robert (brothers).
Religion	None, I am a Yogi. (I Grew up Catholic!)
Religious Views	For me, Yoga is the Way. Period. (BTW Yoga is NOT a Religion, neither it’s an Exercise program. GTFW!)
Social Life	What’s that?
Drinking	No more.
Smoking	I quit 12 years ago.
Drugs	I am not retarded!
Diet	75% Raw Vegan and Fruitarian. Plus Rice & Greens and Wheat Bread.
Hobbies	Flute playing (Baroque period, Jazz and Latin), Graphic design, Pen & Ink Drawing, Internet technologies, Graphic Software, Reading, reading…
Favorite foods	Fruits, Nuts, Raw Vegetables, Rice and Beans, White Rice & Greens, Wheat Bread, Green Juices, Fruit Smoothies.
Favorite Music	Everything but Rap, Heavy Metal and their close relatives.
Favorite bands	Chamber Ensembles, Mariachis and Small Jazz Combos.
Favorite TV Shows	Wait… there’s something good on TV? Now, this is news to me!
Favorite Movies	“And justice for all”, “Stand by me”, most Spaghetti Westerns and good Comedies
Favorite Books	Do I have to list all five hundreds of them? Only love (Sri Daya Mata), Autobiography of a Yogi (P. Yogananda), The Flute (J.J. Quantz), How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie)…
Favorite Activities	Oh, let’s see… daydreaming, watching paint dry, holding the wall, and my all-time favorite laying on the floor in the Corpse Pose!
Favorite Quotations	“Tell the children the truth right now!” Robert Nesta Marley (Babylon System)
Political Views	All the way to the Left. (In case you did not know, the Left is actually ‘more right’ than the Right!)
About Me	Just an average guy who believes we should be doing a lot better on this planet, since we already have the recipe “Do unto others as we would them do unto us”.
Personal Goal	To be the kindest person you will ever meet.