[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-06 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to: Message: 7 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 19:38:54 +0100 From: Tony de Sa Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Tony, Honestly I did not want to get involved in this charade called MOI, we are in a Democracy where a majority counts but that does not give you or any body else

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-06 Thread U. G. Barad
s our Goan STUDENTS will be the brightest student on this globe! Three cheers to your views!! I never knew ENGLISH makes this much difference. Best regards, U. G. Barad Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:31:26 + From: Albert Desouza To: Major domo goanet Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI De

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-06 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to : Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:31:26 + From: Albert Desouza Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Albert, What you say is appreciated, it the system that needs cleaning and not the people who passed through that system. We those, that have gone through the

[Goanet] kONKANI moi

2011-04-07 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to: Message: 11 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 05:44:20 +0100 From: Tony de Sa Subject: [Goanet] R: kONKANI moi Dear Tony, I assume you are confused with my argument, let me put it plain, I am not against the MOI issue which ever way, I have stated it before and I state it again, I

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-09 Thread Tony de Sa
Dear Prof. Borges, The veils of confusion, like Salome's seven dancing veils have dropped at my feet and dissolved into the dust before my very eyes. I am now yours and Freddy Fernandes' most ardent disciple for the cause of devnagri Konkani. Please keep Freddy by your side and lead me to the domai

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-09 Thread Tony de Sa
For all the tom-tomers for the Devnagri script Konkan - A simple question : How many of you use the Devnagri script software? This thought was inspired when I sarcastically mentioned that GN was making arrangements to transliterate posts in Devnagri and the very enlightened Prof Borges fell for the

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-09 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to: Message: 10 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 05:27:02 + From: Albert Desouza Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Albert, Do you mean to say that Konkanni medium students have not been successful overseas ? From the Konkanni medium school that I passed out, to my knowledge

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-09 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to: Message: 9 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:00:30 +0100 From: Tony de Sa Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Tony, First and foremost, I have nothing against English as a medium of instruction and I have stated it clearly in my previous posts, you are trying to jump the gun

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-10 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to: Message: 8 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:24:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Sebastian Borges Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Sebastain, There are guys like Tony who want to tell the world that only English medium students are and can be successful, which is a total bull. They

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-10 Thread Sebastian Borges
Dear Tony Sir, When I was teaching in a Goa college, I had had formed an impression that, by and large, a student who had done all his studies in the English medium was very weak in the English language as far as understanding and expression are concerned; and I don't mean ordinary conversation

[Goanet] Konkani MoI

2011-06-29 Thread icsouza
From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org On Behalf Of floriano Subject: Re: [Goanet] WILL ENGLISH MOI CREATE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN GOANPOLITICS? <

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-05 Thread Tony de Sa
There is nothing spectacular about students who have studied in regional languages who do well at the SSC examinations. Please factor in the fact that corrections done at the Goa Board are slanted towards being populist. The moderators of papers are hard wired to seeing that as many students as pos

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-05 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
A very bold revelation. I really appreciate this. This, should expose what our education system is!! Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. ---Orgininal Message Tony de Sa Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:14:26 -0700 There is nothing

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-06 Thread Albert Desouza
teachers themselves do not have a command over the subjects but they have managed to invade the board and the education department. Albert > From: ffernandes@emaar.ae > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Konkani MOI > > In response to: > > Message: 7 > &g

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-07 Thread Tony de Sa
@ Freddy You write: I assume you are confused with my argument, let me put it plain, I am not against the MOI issue which ever way, I have stated it before and I state it again, I am only asking you not imply that all the Konkanni medium passed are jackasses and the English medium passed are not.

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-08 Thread Sebastian Borges
Dear Tony, I find that you are trying to hide behind a technicality of your own making. You are asking Freddy to show where specifically you have EXPLICITLY stated that Konkani medium students are jackasses. What Freddy had requested you is not to IMPLY this. And in your posts (as well as in Alb

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-09 Thread Albert Desouza
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI > > Dear Tony, > I find that you are trying to hide behind a technicality of your own making. > You are asking Freddy to show where specifically you have EXPLICITLY stated > that Konkani medium students are jackasses. What Freddy had requested you is

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-10 Thread floriano
that their brains are burnt out before they go on confusing the next generations. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: "Freddy Fernandes" To: Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 1:18 PM Subject: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Seb

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-10 Thread Sebastian Borges
Dear Albert, >From your post, I get the impression that in your opinion the aims of primary >education are: (1) to prepare the child for outsourced jobs which require >smart persons fluent in English and nothing else, (2) to prepare the child for >settling abroad because Goa cannot provide him/h

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-11 Thread Tony de Sa
Dear Prof. Borges, Don't waste your time and talents worrying about the "likes of me". FYI we are incorrigible. Better you devote your time and energies to your students. Retired persons - Specially Headmasters (ignorant though they might be) have time to waste galore and in addition have time to

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-13 Thread Sebastian Borges
Dear Tony Sir, FYI, I retired eight years ago and do not have any students in my charge; else, I would have certainly set your post for a correction exercise. English medium students are generally incapable of meaningful thoughts and hence resort to vacuous inanities couched in bombastic verbiag

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-13 Thread Tony de Sa
Dear Retired Prof Borges, Your latest bit Borgesian tripe was a treat to read and made my otherwise humorless day! Keep on sending more tripe on your Borgesian brand of logic. I see you have now graduated from reviling headmasters to the Diocesan and Arch Diocesan Societies and trying to discredi

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MoI

2011-06-30 Thread floriano
tem ami chintlench nam" PS3: Those who are in favour of Marathi as MOI in Primary Section should enmasse move over into Maharashtra, because Goa will never be allowed to merge with Maharashtra, physically or morally/linguistically. - Original Message - From: To: Sent

[Goanet] KONKANI, MoI, AND COLONIAL LEGACY

2014-09-30 Thread dale luis menezes
http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2014/09/konkani-moi-and-colonial-legacy.html Dale www.daleluismenezes.blogspot.com -- "To leave error unrefuted is to encourage intellectual immorality" Karl Marx ---