Ignore the health center AS built, they have been doing that as a campaign to gain legitimacy among the people they rule. While its effective, they tax the locals as much as they want and punish them if they don’t tow the line. Its a discussion on another day. The twitter account is also on AS payroll.
What I am here to talk about is the slow decline of the somali language. Ironic as write in english, I know. However the problem can’t be ignored anymore because it has become absurd.
In what way, does a terrorist organisation founded by somalis operating in Somalia need to use the english when over 90% of the local population cannot speak english? Is a geeljire gonna know he has arrived to the hospital once he sees that general hospital slogan? Shit is ridiculous, most definitely can’t even read the texts written to the wall.
The english language, the lingua franca of humans has now infiltrated fully us somalis. All somali governments write also in english language when english is not even an official language of ours. Thats due to white folks financing us so they need to understand whats going on. Some boollshiid if you ask me. But AS should not have that problem because gaalada ”supposedly” don’t control them. So why the need to use english?
I need help in understanding this phenomenon. I chalked it up to somali istustus, the need to show off. ”Look at me, I know multiple languages”. Can it also apply to terrorist? Even Osama Bin Laden used only arabic when he addressed westerners. Looks like our guys didn’t mimick that.
The use of loanwords in somali is one of my biggest pet peeves. Arabic loanwords are like what english loanwords are today. I am not some purist but my God, some of the loanwords are genuinely idiotic especially when we have our own words with the exact same meaning. The word aayar/tartiib are the same but many use the word tartiib. Why the f*ck are you using that word when there is no need to it. Anaga ma ogin aayar maxoo kawodo waagii hore? We did.
Examine our language and you will find many arab words that are used for common contexts that should have been theoritically in use way before somali language even formed. English is now a huge treat to our language as we incorporate simple english words for simple contexts as we did with arabic.