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South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30)
At Kala Academy, and ESG, Panaji, Goa
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Wed May 31 12:53:51 PDT 2006
>From Alfred de Tavares alfredtavares at hotmail.com
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Portophile has you confounded poor, otherwise sapient,
Mario?
>
How aboot plain and simple: a lover of Porto a.k.a
Oporto, the city on the banks of balmy Douro?
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Mario responds:
>
Not so fast, Tio Alfred, but thanks for the
left-handed compliment:-)) Let me see if I can
re-establish my sapience, even to your Alpine, perhaps
even Himalayan, standards:-))
>
There was really no confusion here. More like, "You
say to-mah-to, and I say, to-may-to." Besides, the
word I used was used in the context of a country, not
a product and its lovers.
>
Instead of just cutting and pasting from the internet,
I tend to think these things through, and can usually
support the words I choose to use, ragardless of
whether others agree or not. However, I am always
glad to adjust my never humble comments when emerging
facts dictate or I may have missed a nuance - one
recent case was when Jose and Paulo both shrewedly
pointed out that modern India could not have taken Goa
"back" because there was no such country when the
Portuguese colonists took Goa by force way back in the
early 1500's. I immediately took "back" back, or back
"back", if you prefer:-))
>
Neither Portophile nor Lusophile appears in my
dictionary. Nor does Indophile. But I took my cues
from Anglophile and Francophile which both appear as
"a person who greatly admires or favors England and
things English" and "markedly friendly to France or
French culture" respectively.
>
I remembered that Lusitania was an ancient and
obsolete name for Portugal - so I decided, after much
reflection and some meditation and fasting, that it
would be more logical and contemporary to use
Portophile:-))
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At your option, we may agree, or agree to disagree.
>
BTW, I, too, love the nectar produced in Portugal
called Vinho do Porto, Oporto, Porto, and often simply
Port, produced in the verdant Douro Valley.
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