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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 02/11/06, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mario observes: > > > Fred, > In case you have missed it, there is no such place as > Panjim. It has been Panaji for quite some time now. > However, are we Goans moving inexorably towards > becoming Gomantaks some day? Mario Lastwordwallah: In case you didn't hear, nobody calls the place PANAJI. In officialdom, it has been spelt as such since the confused, post-colonial times of the 'sixties. But it's just an official name, which means little. Newspapers in Goa (and journalists too) can't make up their mind whether it should be Panaji (Navhind) or Panjim (Herald, Gomantak Times). In my case, it depends which publication one is writing for and the audience there :-) In English, it's often called Panjim. In Marathi it's Pan-ji. Tourists who wouldn't know better, pronounce it as spelt -- Paanaajee. Which, of course, doesn't make sense. Some of our Hindu-background friends have aruged that Panaji is as close to how they pronounce the name in Konkani. This simply isn't accurate though. Correct me if I'm wrong. My contention is that the term Panaji is an bureaucratised misspelling of the Portuguese Pangim (with the ending 'm' almost silent). If you ask any speaker of Konkani, the name is simply Ponnje. That's how it is on the tongues of lakhs of people. Of course, Gomantak is supposed to have been one of the names of the past for Goa (Gouba, or whatever, there are many other names). Unlike the appeal of Ponjje, which cuts across boundaries and is in current usage (not in an artificially-resurrected manner), this one is restricted in appeal. So it doesn't make sense, and could be more divisive. Needless to say, I'm just raking up issues for the sake of doing so, without much serious intent. Probably I'm just feeling like a humble Goanetter does without anything better to do. --FN -- FN [https://southasiaict4d.wordpress.com/] 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers] [http://fn.goa-india.org] Technology, freedom, people: You can contribute to make this mix work! _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org