tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342749600051977390.post625630002992445706..comments2024-03-11T21:12:58.504+11:00Comments on How to win friends and influence people...: Milne BayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342749600051977390.post-86125168054976884752010-02-05T08:19:03.733+11:002010-02-05T08:19:03.733+11:00Cheers Walt, my impression is that the further you...Cheers Walt, my impression is that the further you get away from Moresby and Lae, the level of English improves. Places like Milne Bay and Manus and New Ireland have a wonderful generation of well educated PNGeans. I think there is a real self sufficiency for education with these remote Provinces; they need to learn just to survive.<br /><br />The lack of Tok Pisin was notable in Milne Bay, to the extent I met locals who couldn't understand my pidgin, and I speak pidgin like a bus-kanaka.<br /><br />I do recall meeting a wonderful lady at Kokoda Station who was teaching a group of children English, I helped with a lesson or two and the only rules were "English only, no Tok Pisin in this classroom"... with the exception of one young girl from the Moresby Coastline who I was able to chat with in Motuan.Steve Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578433661694585069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342749600051977390.post-28026643419301095722010-02-04T08:52:48.725+11:002010-02-04T08:52:48.725+11:00Thanks for the article. I found the bit about the ...Thanks for the article. I found the bit about the attitude towards Tok Pisin interesting. Do you think most PNG coastal people regard it as a highlands language? Or is that just in the Milne Bay area?Walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10246691594501030755noreply@blogger.com