Hello Evanglisto
You are right when you say Roman Catholic Church is Universal, but than when
it has its main books in the church in Roman script, I feel the church
should have supported the Roman script right from the beginning, but no, it
too succumbed to the sweet talks of the then government of Goa and Imposed
the devanagri to the students who might never use it in their day to day
conversation nor ever after. It has benefited only the people who earlier
opted for Marathi, and now for devanagri. Its never too late for the church
to start the support for Roman Script.
I dont know if you listen to the short program on doordarshan in Konkani, I
bet more than half the words will fly over the head. Now that is devanagri.
Now go to any Konkani drama amche tiatre, and you will relish each and every
word, now that is because its roman Konkani a much easily understood
language. I once saw the Konkani movie which came from Mangalore, name I
think was Mog ani moipass, and believe me I was completely lost as most of
the language was flying over my head. I could understand only the songs as
they were broadcasted on our radio many a times. Songs of Wilfy remimbus (
hope the name is correct)
What is the use of a language if it is not understood?
Cheers
Jerry Fernandes
From: Desouza WilberiousEvanglist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mr. Gonsalves,
Roman Catholic Church is universal; so, it cannot patronize a single
language or promote a single script for a language!
