Give him 100 days to start DOING!
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Ms. Ric
17 July 2007
I can’t say I’ve been “smoking Hawaiian black or snorting snow from Columbia and drinking moonshine from Mapandan”, but I guess I’m a tad more optimistic than you, Mr. Pontaoe.
Gov. Espino has sound ideas and since Pangasinenses did vote for him to be their leader the next three years, I’m willing to at least give him his 100 days to start DOING.
I guarantee you he’ll make mistakes, heck, he’s already earned a few monikers before he even entered the arena, and he will have his critics from all walks of life.
Hopefully, he will also learn from his mistakes, have enough sense to do as he says, and have enough guts to face his critics.
As far as the Pangasinan dialect, it is on its way to extinction. I’m not instigating an eradication of Ilocano dialect, far from it. What I am emphasizing, however, is a means for Pangasinenses to hear the Pangasinan dialect even on such limited occasion when they visit the Capitol.
And should everything written in English be written in Pangasinan dialect? Absolutely not!
When my home state decided to translate government paperwork such as the voter registration in so many languages, they did not translate the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence in any language other than English. In fact they did not translate a lot of historical papers. They started small.
Again, this idea of speaking Pangasinan only in the Capitol might just be the baby steps to claiming our dialect back. It might not lead to anything huge, but at least I’m willing to give it a try and see how far he takes this cultural awareness he’s bent on addressing.
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