Ethoash wrote: ↑19 Oct 2019, 12:29
Ethwar wrote: ↑19 Oct 2019, 12:01
It will be hard-work but the final goal should be splitting regional states in terms of climate, economical and historically importance.
Ethwar,
the problem is not how u divide the state but
which language they should speak .. for example u said Golden must join the donkey that is fine but what language should the two speak? how about the oromo and other what language they should speak if u tell us this all the problem will be solved...
Here you go again talking about the same topic using your static hypothetical logic.
A while back, I heard and watched a simple and visible economic trendline misinterpreted and I said to myself this is a time when illiteracy defined a presidency. Just yesterday, when I incidentally heard a simple word misinterpreted, I asked myself if this is also a time when illiteracy defined a premiership. Later on, I incidentally read somebody else also question the meaning of the misused word and I said quietly ask the organization that produced it or the Ivy League school student who supported it.
I don't know you personally and I have no idea who you might be as an individual person. However, I have engaged you multiple times on this forum and I have found you to be shallow in logical reasoning and a failure in accepting a simple logic or logical reasoning even if I am positive that you understand the difference between anthem and item. I have found you to be beholden to your faults even after reading convincing logical reasoning to the contrary. Don't be a character for illiteracy defining a debate. Logic and logical reasoning should not take the backseat for Ethiopia in particular and Africa in general to rise. I have no reason to believe that you want others to say what you want to be said and heard. So, I take you at your own words; it is not personal.
Taking you at your own words, you appear to think that you or anybody else is in a position to dictate "which language they should speak." You are not in a position to dictate that and it shouldn't be a responsible government's position to dictate that. A responsible and logical question to ask, at least at this stage in Ethiopia's politics, is what language are they speaking in each and every Ethiopian family's home as we speak. You don't show us a solid assessment of that status quo as a starting point. Nobody is or should be in a position to deny them that privilege. The government's job should be about having a governing structure to reach every family's home in an efficient way possible for governing and only government duties.
The government's bond with each and every tax-paying citizen or family starts when it receives that tax money. Every taxpayer should have the right to use a language of his choice wherever and whenever he walks into a government's office, including the President and the Prime Minister's offices. It is the tax collector government's duty and responsibility to have or get an interpreter in its office for any Ethiopian citizen who is unable to speak other Ethiopian languages. The government, and more importantly, civic institutions can be in a position to encourage learning various languages in order to thrive in a country of many languages. A citizen, from Borana to Barentu, from Gambella to Garamuldhata, from Chilalo to Ras Dashen, should be in a position to pursue learning multiple languages or refuse to do so if he or she says I have enough coffee beans or green leaves to take care of me and pay government taxes.
Here in the U.S. private companies and institutions ask in their official job application forms how many languages a job applicant can speak. I presume that speaking multiple languages is an incentive from private companies for a job application to be successful. There are State Government Motor Vehicle Department's here in the U.S. that have written driving tests in various languages, including Amharic. Generally, people take that kind of test only once in their lifetime. It goes to show you the problem of speaking or giving service in another language is not as chronic of a problem as you might think and jump high pomping language as a problem whenever more important government duties are discussed. The fraction of time anybody needs to use a language that is different from the language that he or she usually speaks is very small. Practically, it can not even be a big factor in finding the most efficient governing structure in the same country. Take two governing structures, for example, and you will know that you will be unable to, for example, take Wallaga to Hararghe, or vice versa. የእናት ሃገሩ ሸዋ ላይ እየተረማመደ ወደ ወለጋ ሲሮጥ የኖረዉን ልጅ የወለጋዉ ጃል መሮ ኣትምጣ እንዳለዉ ማለት ነዉ። Imagine in what a better position the latter would have been if he over the years focused more on building his village, his state, and his country, Ethiopia.
Then again, when you have the mindset wherein the old dogma of destabilizing the country that exists in order to form smaller countries out of it, it may not be easy to erase that old dogma out of your faculty in order to make the country that exists function well enough. It is an unwitting disposition of that old dogma.