And before anyone asks me for evidence, I am going to preempt your question because there are numerous convos we have had as Marehan about these lively little displays of petty resentment against us constantly coming before us in ways most Somali groups can't even imagine.Gubbet wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 3:43 am
You want to know what is historical revisionism?
Tearing pages off of books you originally were drafted to physically archive as a well known Somali scholar and yet 100% of those randomly torn pages all coincidentally happen to have in common a direct reference to Marehan historically.
An instance
Another instance, (if we weren't privileged with the information age, these were erased from somali physical archives)Gubbet wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:44 pm https://www.somalinet.com/forums/postin ... 32e5553b19
It is worse than that. Much worse.
So in some of the Somali linked repositories, I have noticed quite a bit of the books have had historical references to Marehan or Darod ripped out. I mean it is basically proverbially ripping out because the pages have not been included in the photocopy uploaded.
Once is possibly an accident or mistake....twice is suspicious...third time is clearly a pattern----
Speaking to INTENTIONALLY removed from the record for an tribal reason as the missing pages are all in referencen to ONE clan family.
I will give you an example ;
One of my most memorable debates is with Xildiiid who was pilfering the same load of crap about the Somali language he posted everywhere.
1. There is a linguist called Lamberti who is one of the most cited on Somali language
2. He wrote a book called Di Somali Dialekte or something like that (German) in 1982-83
3. For his presentation for the 1986 Somali studies conference, a concise smaller primet of 30 pages was made of his book
4. The primer said the base of Somali language was "Northern Somali" and in another part said "proper northern Somali" is basically Northwestern or Waqooyi Galbeed
5. The Xildiid brain basically went Northern Somalia = Isaaq so the base of standard Somali is Isaaq and oh yeah, proper = best.
I basically said, no..... The reason why he wrote proper north is because what he called northern Somali was the common Somali spoken in Garbahaaray as it is in Hargeisa so to differentiate Af-Isaaq or northwest from say Af-Marehan geographically, you have to allude to geographically proper.
Notice I posted an actual screen shot of Lamberti's big book on page 31 where he explains that the northern Somali he calls the base of standard Somali is actually AF-MAREEXAAN OF AF-DAAROOD.
Well the copy of the book in Somali circles like the online collection from Spienza University in Italy is this one
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Gubbet wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2020 1:18 pm https://www.somalinet.com/forums/postin ... &p=4985692
Btw, those very nice drawings by Robecchi like this
Or those of my grandfathers?
Don't bother in the copies uploaded in the Somali-linked repositories, somehow they just happen to be the "missing pages" in Robecchi's books.
First I was mad. I wanted to go after the culprit by lodging a complaint with the linked organizations---persumably it would not be hard to locate the persons tasked with photocopy or something----library/archive sources are notorious for detailed metadata, but then I just literally felt sorry for them.
To be so resentful that you think you could erase information or history only to be confronted today by the wide dissemination of those images in such a prominent position in any basic Somali historical research---that's the most fitting punishment I thought.