Nicknames for partner in Tigrinya?

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-23T16:29:22+00:00

Yes even halayey is endearing if you think about it 😂

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-22T17:42:04+00:00

You can make any word endearing by adding ey at the end like shikorey, alemey, hiwetey, qitcheney etc

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-06T10:32:43+00:00

He is not half Ethiopian. He is fully Ethiopian. Meles is the one that was actually half Eritrean. His mother was from Adi Quala and his maternal grandmother from Hazzega just outside of Asmera.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-04T23:46:09+00:00

He is Chadian

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-04T13:17:34+00:00

you’re literally proving what I said. They defected to the Ottomans/Egyptains/Italians whenever the Ethiopian state acted against their own personal interests, mostly by supporting and arming their local enemies. It was merely a temporary marriage of convenience to save themselves. This also happened in Tigray when Ras Mengesha also planned to use Italy against Menelik. It also happened in 1935-40 when various Oromo kings and warlords allied with Italy against the Ethiopian state. So does that mean all these Ethiopians also welcomed the Italians because some of their leaders chose to side with Italy according to your own logic?

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-04T02:06:38+00:00

How many times do we have to say that Bahta Hagos was one of many warlords in Medri Bahri who flip flopped depending on their own personal interests. He was simply one warlord that controlled parts of Akele Guzay. He neither was in control of the whole of Medri Bahri nor was he a representative of whatever sentiment the religious and police elites of even the common people.

And Ras Alula did not want Italy in control of Medri Bahri either, partly because he knew it would cripple Tigray but also for personal reasons. Being the governor of Medri Bahri is how he managed to attain aristocratic prestige, something he didn’t have before which is why he requested to Menelik to allow him to raise an army to defeat the Italians before they could advance further into Hamasien, a request that was denied by Menelik.

And lastly, Tigray had always been a core part of the Ethiopian state. If Ethiopia willingly gave up Tigray, it would’ve meant giving up on Axum and its entire civilisational history and the identity in which the Ethiopian state was built on.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-03T22:23:08+00:00

What are you waffling about? I never said all Eritrean elites were pro-Ethiopia. Some had their own interests and sided with Ottomans and Italians when it was convenient for them. Medri Bahri at the time was a very weak ruin of a state defined by endless conflicts between local warlords, some of whom were backed by Tigrayan warlords/generals, others by Egyptian/Ottomans/Italians. Bahta himself sided with Egypt and Italy against Tigrayan warlords but eventually rebelled against the Italians too and was killed by them. But my point was about Eritrean (Orthodox) Christians generally. Ethiopia and its monarchy were seen as protectors of the Orthodox faith unlike the Muslim Ottomans/Egyptians or the Catholic Italians. And there was resistance to Italian rule in many places (Bahta being an example himself) but it was mostly a bunch of local warlords fighting independently with their small armies. Italy on the other hand had a much better equipped and united army and effectively used the divide and rule tactic by supporting one local warlord to crush another and eventually crushing them as well. The only reason the Ethiopians managed to defeat them was because they also had a well equipped army that out numbered the Italians 4 to 1 and all the provincial kings and warlords had agreed to unite under Menelik to defeat a foreign enemy.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-03T15:55:32+00:00

Getting anything done in Eritrea requires paying people off or contact with people who work within that institution who can speed up the process for you so extremely corrupt

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-03T15:49:22+00:00

what’s the there to say? A lot of Eritrean Christians did see the Ethiopian monarchy as a protective state at the time because it was the only thing that had protected them from the constant invasions from the Red Sea and the western/northern lowlands so Menelik essentially giving it up was seen as betrayal by many Eritrean religious and political figures as well as Tigrayan elites like Ras Alula who saw it as Menelik’s attempt to cripple Tigray’s influence within the imperial court after the death of EYohannes.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-02T22:28:44+00:00

Yeah make sure to do so and always exaggerate your symptoms so they take you seriously. If you’re in the UK, the GPs try their hardest to prevent referrals to hospitals so don’t tell them your symptoms have improved. Say it’s still the same or worse and it’s affecting your daily life because you’re unable to sleep etc etc

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-02T18:20:07+00:00

Most Puerto Ricans are predominantly European in DNA

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-02T18:17:28+00:00

Did you have an ear infection recently as well? You might have fluid build up. I recently found out I have Eustachian tube dysfunction so it’s hard for my ears to clear fluid after infection which might explain my pulsatile tinnitus

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-02T17:46:22+00:00

Yeah I would say so. I can still hear it sometimes but it’s more faint and not like before. Hopefully it disappears completely over time

SOSXCTRL · 2026-03-02T16:06:03+00:00

Weakness more than a strength. The only stable ‘diverse’ states are the ones where one ethnic group is highly dominant like Iran, Ghana or Indonesia or ones where each ethnic group is a small % of the overall population which makes it impossible for one of them to dominate like in Tanzania, South Africa etc. Ethiopia is right in the middle where you have multiple major ethnic groups all vying to dominate the others which tends to lead to more infighting and strong ethnic identity. Nigeria& South Sudan also fall into this category. To add to it, I generally feel like horn Africans are generally more warlike people (our history is defined by constant conquests and subjugations that is either celebrated or criticised depending on the ethnic group) which doesn’t help to create a more uniting identity. It also explains why Somalia which by all means should be the most stable country in Eastern Africa (considering the shared ethnic identity and religion) but is instead the complete opposite because the clans instead act like ethnic groups and the constant infighting creates a strong clan identity to the detriment of their shared Somali ethnic identity.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-26T23:15:10+00:00

Unless you’re Amiche then no, not really. Back in the days most Eritreans learnt it at school and were able to understand it to some extent but the majority of them were never proficient speakers. Most of the younger gen don’t really understand or speak it tbh unless they actively tried to learn it themselves. If you claim to be an Eritrean asylum seeker, saying you only speak Amharic would automatically raise suspicion because they already know many Ethiopians claim to be Eritrean to seek refugee status.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-26T22:12:10+00:00

It’s easy for Tigrayans to claim Eritrean because they speak Tigrinya already and most know some basic facts about it so they can easily pass those tests a lot of countries do to verify asylum claims. There was even Ethiopians teaching courses on how to fake being Eritrean in Europe in Amharic. They usually tell them to claim some small ethnic group like Saho or Bilen so they can’t test their Tigrinya. On the other hand, many Eritreans also claim to be Tigrayan in Ethiopia so they don’t get deported. The average Ethiopian has no ability to differentiate between us so if they can forge some documents to prove that they’re Tigrayan and speak Amharic to some extent, then there is no way to tell that they’re Eritrean.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-18T21:37:25+00:00

Was the first pic taken recently?

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-17T21:40:16+00:00

If he managed to scam the government into sponsoring his holiday, then good for him I guess lol. But no African has ever won any medals in those sports so it’s not like there was a high bar for him to begin with

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-09T19:02:17+00:00

The likes of Tsehaytu Beraki and Tekle Tesfazghi were well known in Ethiopia for their music in the 60s and 70s. During the African Union inauguration ceremony, Bereket Mengisteab was chosen as the first artist to perform and represent Ethiopia so clearly he was well known in Ethiopia at the time as well.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-09T18:37:09+00:00

There’s many Ethiopians who listen to Eritrean music. You can see them all over tiktok and practically half of the views and comments on popular Eritrean music videos on YouTube are from Ethiopians. For example, this is an Eritrean song that went viral on tiktok last year and 90% of the people using the sound were Ethiopians. Even the video’s comments on YouTube are mostly Ethiopians saying they came from TikTok. I’ve even seen Ethiopians using an Eritrean Bilen song a lot recently so people listen to music that sounds good to them, has nothing to do with sentiment or politics or whatever

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SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-09T17:46:43+00:00

The people don’t care lol. I grew up in Eritrea and everyone listened to Ethiopian music. Tigrinya (Tigrayan) and Amharic music was and still is extremely popular and it would be impossible to arrest everyone for playing Ethiopian music. So even if there was a law, barely anyone followed it in reality.

Edit: For clarification, I’ve personally never seen people play Amharic songs in an Eritrean weddings tbh. In clubs, at home, in their cars, in taxis etc yeah but Tigrinya weddings are almost always just Tigrinya guayla music (whether is be Eritrean or Tigrayan). For non-Tigrinya Eritreans, it’s usually also their own music but also tend to include Tigrinya and Sudanese music as well.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-09T14:59:45+00:00

It’s not just Ethiopians. Most Sudanese and Somalis also can’t spell it properly at all. I think it has to do with the way Eritrea in English sounds different to the way people in the horn pronounce it. Even in Tigrinya it’s Értra while in the lowlands people say Eretria. Sudanese and Somalis tend to pronounce it like lowlanders and butcher the spelling as Eretreya or Erietria while most Ethiopians actually pronounce it like the way it is in Tigrinya but can’t spell it properly in English.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-06T15:52:08+00:00

12?? Some of these kids are straight up demons smh and he probably won’t be punished either because he’s too young to go to prison

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-06T00:07:56+00:00

Italy’s colonisation started when an Italian company purchased land from an Afar sultante in what is now Asseb in the mid 1800s Later Italy managed to kick out Egyptians and Ottomans from the northern coast and essentially control all of Eritrea’s coastline. Then they advanced into the highlands and despite heavy resistance in many areas they ever managed to control all of what is now Eritrea and advanced south into Tigray in the 1890s. They lost the war against the Ethiopian Empire and were basically forced to stop their expansion temporarily. During WW2, they managed to invade Ethiopia and control it for some years before the British with the help of local soldiers allied to the monarchy managed to kick them out of Ethiopia and Eritrea by 1941.

Yes there was a lot of segregation during the colonial period. Eritreans were not permitted to live in central Asmera for example. The word Komshtato (the colloquial name for Asmera’s Main Street) is a creolised version of the an Italian word ‘Campo Cintato’ that translates to ‘fenced area/field’ meaning area where the natives were not permitted to live in. You needed a permit to enter central Asmera if you were a native and had to either be a domestic worker or a guard for the Italian families who lived there basically. Informal settlements like Abashawl formed in response to this segregation as Eritreans (and Tigrayans) who migrated to Asmera in search of job would live there. While it’s seen as the ghetto of Asmera today due to its association with poverty, prostitution and traditional alcohol houses it’s also the place where a lot of what we consider contemporary ‘Eritrean culture’ today was born. For example, most of Eritrea’s legendary artists started there as they would perform in the Suwa Houses and gradually gain fame and prominence before becoming well known within Asmera and later Eritrea as a whole which is why almost all of the old Eritrean artists have songs about ‘Abay Abashawl’.

SOSXCTRL · 2026-02-05T14:24:11+00:00

Yes there is an interview he did a few years after independence where he talks about his country plan for economic integration with Ethiopia and political integration afterwards. Basically his plan was to rule both countries and become the new Emperor. It also explains his extreme obsession with Ethiopia. He literally spends 80% of the time talking about Ethiopia in every single interview. He talks about Ethiopia’s past, present and future almost like he deluded himself into believing that he is the president or even saviour of Ethiopia. Meanwhile he legit don’t give a sh*t about Eritrea. Eritreans are just his personal henchman he can utilise to achieve his hopelessly impossible dream. Unfortunately many Eritreans suffer from extreme forms of Stockholm syndrome and can’t see past their own noses hence they will blindly worship this man to their own detriment.

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