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I recently returned from a grueling three-week stay in Peru, where I worked with the serious Ministry of Education team entrusted with the country’s 260-thousand laptop OLPC implementation. I wanted to know what the laptops had done for the kids. I told them I’m not a reporter, I don’t answer to the Ministry, and — an important disclaimer for an overpoliticized country like Peru — I don’t pander to bullshit politics. I wanted to hear if they thought the laptops were helping. After looking at me blankly for a good half-minute, Mr. Navarro shot back with “evidentemente”, “obviously”, and palpably left off “you idiot” from the end of the sentence. I appreciated the small courtesy and asked a more specific question: what changed in the 8 months since the laptops arrived?

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Comments (25)

5 earlier comments in the full thread.

jdixon ·
No hablo espanol. :(
NoDough ·
Dag-gone-it! Why cain't ya'll speak nermal English lik thu rest a duh werld?
ColonelPanik ·
Silencio Gringo! Viva Linux!
montezuma ·
> Dag-gone-it! Why cain't ya'll speak nermal English lik thu rest a duh werld?

Pero no en Perú!
montezuma ·
> Donde esta el bano?

In the Andes near Lima. Beautiful countryside and people!
Scott_Ruecker ·
NoDough;

Your post makes my grammar muscle hurt.

:-)
herzeleid ·
> Silencio Gringo! Viva Linux!

mira ese... ah, wait, another fan of Mulholland Drive?
tuxchick ·
Más cervezas para todos, por favor
herzeleid ·
> Más cervezas para todos, por favor

I'll drink to that tc -

> No hay banda

You had to go and say it moopst!

in case anyone is curious - http://www.synoptique.ca/core/en/articles/mulholland/

and the scene containing the line - http://youtube.com/watch?v=-A6z6M1j2tQ&feature=related

gus3 ·
Quoting:In the Andes near Lima. Beautiful countryside and people!
Mmmm, Lima. I have some wonderful memories of Lima... well, more correctly, a woman from Lima. ;-)
jacog ·
De que estas hablando, amigas ??
herzeleid ·
> De que estas hablando, amigas ??

A lot of off-topic things, tee hee....
ColonelPanik ·
If any of you know of a project in Latin America that needs two helping hands please let me know.

My wife and I have the language, love the culture and have lived in Mexico/ Central America/Mexico. As of May we are ready to go.

OLPC would be a first choice.
NoDough ·
If someone who speaks three or more languages is multilingual...

and someone who speaks two languages is bilingual...

then what is someone who speaks only one language?























...wait for it...























an American.
Bob_Robertson ·
Nihongo ga skoshi hanashimasu.

Americajin arimasen ka?
gus3 ·
O ellenikos ei ena idioma mou...
montezuma ·
kuyaylla!

(Quechua)
jezuch ·
Polskiego i tak nic nie przebije ;) [wow, no diacritics, a rare thing!]

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