Re: Богданові щодо українізації: Nothing New

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: : : The ball is in your half of the tennis court. Please respond. : You provide a whole series of arguments appealing to some form of historical justice. But the Odesit wants to speak Russian because that is the language he uses and knows now. His ancestor may or may not have spoken Ukrainian. Much of the Odesa population came from non-Ukrainian parts of the Russian Empire or even from abroad. : You fail to understand the fact that the person in Odesa does not feel discriminated against because he speaks Russian. He would feel discriminated against if he were made to speak Ukrainian. : If I were your teacher I would give you an F for not designing a practical implementation approach. Ukrainians always resort to emotional and abstract appeals without realistic approaches. : You have to 1) design a practical implementation approach. : 2) You have to persuade people to accept it. People who already have another language. : You have to start over again. You have to create the circumstances for such a change as you stated. What do you mean by this specifically: Треба створювати йому умови і вести в певному напрямку. : : : Bohdan Oryshkevich : : : usa.usa@attglobal.net : : : : : I accept the premise of a unilingual Ukraine. But many regions of Ukraine have never spoken Ukrainian. This is either never or in the last few generations. There may be a history of Ukrainian but no memory of it. : : : : : I wish to pose a question. Let us assume that for practical purposes one or more oblasts have more than 90% primarily Russian speakers. These people are not favorably disposed to switching their language. This scenario seems to reflect the current reality in Luhansk, Donetsk, Crimea, Odesa, and Mykolaiv and perhaps several other eastern and southern oblasts. These oblasts are heavily populated and industrial. They are responsible for a plurality of Ukrainian exports. : : : : : My question is this: How and under what circumstances will these people change their language preference? How long will this take? Are you willing to design a strategy to bring this about? Can this happen peacefully? : : : : : Does telling a visitor to this thread to get out help this process of peaceful transition? : : : : : Bohdan Oryshkevich : : : : : usa.usa@attglobal.net

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