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Sunith,
Please don't try to proclaim your patriotism by
casting aspersions on that of others. You should rise
above such tactics. How do you know that I'm a
"reluctant Goan"? Because I call it as I see it? In
that case every person who ever says something about
Goa that doesn't agree with your perspective should
have his loyalty questioned.
Secondly, since you claim to be a salt of the earth
Goan, you should know that "gaunti" means belonging to
the Gaun, which loosely translated means local. In
Salcette, we colloquially call our beloved dogs
"gaunti", to denote a local breed. The term as part of
the word "gaunkari", means indigenous to the location,
or as part of a surname, "Gaunkar" also to mean
indigenous. So why are you making a brou ha ha out of
nothing? Scoring cheap points like this should be
beneath you.
selma
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--- Sunith D Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Selma writes:
> "Everyone there was as Goan as our gaunti dog, patto
> ladru."
>
> If you weren't a Goan(albeit a reluctant one)
> yourself, the above
> statement would be a grave insult to those Goans
> resident in Goa and
> anyone proud of his Goan origins.
>
> For your information:
> 1] There are no commonly known Goan breeds of Dog.
> 2] "Gaunti" is used
> by most people to refer to the origins of food. It
> is only used by the
> misguided "elites" as an adjective to describe
> people.
>
> I'm sure you can come up with something better if
> you are trying to
> describe how 'Goan' a person is.
>
> Regards
> Sunith
>
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