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Posted On: October 13th 2026, 03:30 pm
A few months ago, I did a thing.
I launched COFMG Insights and published my first paper. It’s called “How the Jamaican New Testament Is Doing What Formal Education Never Did” and it looks at something I stumbled into during my own Bible reading practice: the Jamaican New Testament on the Bible app is quietly teaching us to read and write our own language in a way no school ever did.
If you’ve been following the conversation about Patois and whether it should be an official language, this is a different angle. I’m not asking whether it should be official. I’m asking: when it is, what infrastructure do we actually have? And who is learning to read and write it right now?
The answer surprised me. And it started with a Bible app.
🔗https://carryonfriends.com/cofmg-insights/the-jamaican-new-testament-as-patois-curriculum/
#jamiekannyuutestiment #bibleapp #jamaican #jamaicannewtestament
I launched COFMG Insights and published my first paper. It’s called “How the Jamaican New Testament Is Doing What Formal Education Never Did” and it looks at something I stumbled into during my own Bible reading practice: the Jamaican New Testament on the Bible app is quietly teaching us to read and write our own language in a way no school ever did.
If you’ve been following the conversation about Patois and whether it should be an official language, this is a different angle. I’m not asking whether it should be official. I’m asking: when it is, what infrastructure do we actually have? And who is learning to read and write it right now?
The answer surprised me. And it started with a Bible app.
🔗https://carryonfriends.com/cofmg-insights/the-jamaican-new-testament-as-patois-curriculum/
#jamiekannyuutestiment #bibleapp #jamaican #jamaicannewtestament
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