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Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07 http://tinyurl.com/2dk2bl http://tinyurl.com/29kpdx --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface from jc: One reason why Konkani books in any script do not and will not be bought by Goans is because of the stubborn pig headedness of the alleged Konkani protagonists. And these same folks wonder WHY Goans have switched to English! On 01/12/2007, Sebastian Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Konknni ek Bharoti bhas. Romi lipi Evropant upzoli. Krista adim savn ti thoim asa. Tea kallar Konknni mhonnloli bhas khoinch ostitvant nasli (did not exist). Tor Romi lipi Konknni bhaxechi DHU koxi zaum-ieta?] jc: To those who do not understand the above 'Konkani' OR get a headache reading this very engineered 'Konkani' ... The main thrust of the above post : The Roman script is European in origin. Konkani is a Bharati language. This is akin to the SA 'Afrikanders' revising facts and stating that Afrikaans is an African language. And while they may be (partially) right - we all know (hopefully) the origins of Afrikaans. Let us accept that Konkani is derived from Prakrit which is derived from Sanskrit, the language of the Aryans who are almost as European and as NON-Bharati (check the DNA or the Romance languages) as the Romans. So is that proverbial DHU's (daughter's) Mai (mother) .... her Bharati Mai or her Bhailli SasuMai (Mother in Law) ? jc ps: Here ...from Dr Jamnadas, also a UK trained surgeon. Please note 4(four) important words: Brahmanism, Control, Through, Language. == Brahmanism Controlled Masses Through Language - Dr. K. Jamanadas, courtesy Ambedkar.Org 1: Does India have a national language? Presumably, it does, and it is Hindi. How it came to become a national language is described by Dr. Ambedkar who was present in the Congress Party meeting as Chairman of the Drafting Committee when the Draft Constitution of India was being considered, on the issue of adopting Hindi as the National language: 2: "Let us remember that Sanskrit (''') was spoken by "shishtas" i.e. elite (meaning Brahmins) alone. Rest of the masses were speaking Prakrit. [Mishra, p.376] 3: Social Control through language 4: The so called "purity" of Sanskrit makes it a dead language, may be true, but that was the intention of the users, to safeguard their own supremacy over the masses. Nair exclaims: 5: "... The maintenance of the purity of Sanskrit language since the days of Panini until the present day is wonder of wonders that is largely to be explained by the tenacity of the Brahmin to preserve it as such, as the sacred language of status group even though their spoken language was, by and large, the local languages or a mixture of the two. 6: This is not to admit that early Sanskrit before it reification did not borrow words from Dravidian languages and made them its own. [Nair B. N., "The Dynamic Brahmin", p.68] 7: Rajwade acknowledges the Aryans have come from outside India 8: (...) He also acknowledges the presence of non-Aryan languages like Asur bhasha, Dravida bhasha, Chinese and Red Indian and African languages. [Rajwade V. K., bharatiya vivah sansthe cha itihas, marathi, p. 100] 9: Before Aryans could influence things here, the language of India was "Paishachi", which meant Tamil, and it was spoken from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. (...) Of all the vernaculars the Paisachi is said to have contained the smallest infusion of Sanskrit". [Nair B. N., "The Dynamic Brahmin", p.70]