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| A MATTER OF LANGUAGE |
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| If silence means "yes", and such an attitude is directed towards certain policies that are unacceptable to those whose passion in life is to make their languages immortal, then it is tantamount to waving a white flag in the face of adversity. It is like consigning one's language to the kind of fate being given to it by a few manipulators just because we need to live in peace. But peace without harmony is just what it is. If we had been "silent" during the Spanish and Japanese regimes, how would we have been able to effect the changes we wanted? We would have been forever under them! Similarly, with our languages. Are we just going to let things stay as they are just so that there would be peace? Does that kind of "peace" assure one any peace of mind? Silence could also mean a come-what-may attitude. "What, me worry?" says Alfred in Mad magazine. "Why the heck should I care? They are just languages. Can a language put food in my stomach? There are other things in life more important to worry about!" Hence, silence. That's what the proverbial monkeys do. The first one covers his eyes with his hand and sees no evil, the second one covers his ears and hears no evil, and the third one covers his mouth and speaks no evil. I think Rolly has good intentions. But UNT people in DILA just can't be like lambs fraught with silence. Tyranny prevails where there is no opposition whatsoever. In fact it was Rizal who said, "There are no tyrants where there are no slaves." And letting our languages, Ilocano, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Bikol, Hiligaynon, Waray and Cebuano be virtually subjected to this abominable fate is not found in our language. We should never let our languages bite the dust in such an unnatural way. State language policy just has to be overhauled and eventually amended to accommodate our hope for the continuous use of our languages. |
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