A dinner was held at The Flaming Copper Pot Restaurant in Mississauga on
October 17 to celebrate the successful conclusion of the first phase of
sixteen two hour weekly Konkani lessons in the GTA. Most of the fourteen
students who completed the course attended. As usual, the food and the
--- Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is really amazing how some Goa-Netters who crave
attention are able to
get it through trying to ridicule one's attempt at
writing our own language.
Only when the individual received some hostile mail
from other Goa-Netters
did he try and
It is really amazing how some Goa-Netters who crave attention are able to
get it through trying to ridicule one's attempt at writing our own language.
Only when the individual received some hostile mail from other Goa-Netters
did he try and justify it as tongue-in-cheek humour.
Again it is
Buried inside a lengthy litany of words, introductions and references was a
message (I believe) I could have missed, had I not read my name being quoted
(or rather misquoted.) Hence, I stretched my attention span to read the
full story by Mr. Eugene Correia. *Dev borem korum.*
Ironically,
Joe vaz writes:
The primary purpose of any language is to
communicate, and as long as one
person understands the other that purpose will have
been served. Tims
version of Thank you has done just that. Unless of
course if Tim is
venturing to write a textbook in Konkani, which may
I think Tim de Mello and Joe Vaz should be left in
peace. If we had an Alliance Francaise type
organisation coming out from Goa where there are
standards etc. one would count it as an other story.
If the critics or skeptics are ready to form an AF
type organisation for teaching Concani world
Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Writes:
Joe Vaz finds no problem with the Konkani Tim de Mello
wrote. That's the real problem with Konkani,
particularly between the spoken Konkani and the
written Konkani.
Don't we normally say: Tuka dev borem korun instead
of the other way. Or, just Dev borem
In a message dated 06/25/2003 7:45:10 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let us all, learned or not, gather together and HAVE A FRANK
DISCUSSION ON HOW TO BRING ABOUT UNITY among ourselves, instead of
using the internet to wash our dirty linen.
Words to the wise -- yes, we have to garner
the proper Goan way I have to respect you.
(bite my tongue). Respect is to be earned and if you expect people to
respect you, you should do likewise. Can we start over?
Cheers
Gabe Menezes
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani lessons in the GTA
In Portugal they serve a soup called Sopa de Piedra
lessons in the GTA
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:41:07 -0700 (PDT)
Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Eugene Correia
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani lessons in the GTA
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:11:38 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Vaz finds no problem with the Konkani Tim de Mello
wrote
... Dev borem korum tuka ani tuji famil.
Reading the above sentence, it seems Tim didn't learn
his Konkani well.
A better way and probably gramatical way to write
would be:
Tuka and tujea familik dev borem korum.
Eugene Correia
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