Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along?

2011-12-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along? This is getting both boring and childish. (i) I have a name, so please use it, if you wish. (ii) As I see it, I do not need either "honorifics" or patronisingly-bestowed prefixes or suffixes to my name. JC has also

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along?

2011-12-05 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
This is getting both boring and childish. (i) I have a name, so please use it, if you wish. (ii) As I see it, I do not need either "honorifics" or patronisingly-bestowed prefixes or suffixes to my name. JC has also been using the word "patracar" in a similar vein. (iii) When I take part in Goane

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along?

2011-12-04 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
, Gabe Menezes wrote thus to/about Santoshbab: " A cry baby rant, looking in vain, for support - tried a pathetic attempt to draw Dr. Colaco into this. Called in his side kick Goveia to bolster - such a forlorn figure." Dear Gabe, I thought you would have learned your lesson by now. But here it i

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along?

2011-12-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 3 December 2011 16:16, Santosh Helekar wrote: > > > Thanks E. D'Sousa for this suggestion. Henceforth, I will call him Goanet > Administrator, if he does not mind. > > Cheers, > > Santosh > > P.S. I noticed that Mr. Gabe Menezes has used a foul and abusive word to > refer to Jose Colaco and me

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along?

2011-12-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Thanks E. D'Sousa for this suggestion. Henceforth, I will call him Goanet Administrator, if he does not mind. Cheers, Santosh P.S. I noticed that Mr. Gabe Menezes has used a foul and abusive word to refer to Jose Colaco and me in the following quote: QUOTE We could proceed to Abbreviations

[Goanet] To add to the debate on English : Why can't we all just get along?

2011-12-03 Thread E DeSousa
Dr. Helekar writes: "I know that Admin is not your first name. But are you not a Goanet Admin? If so, do you mind if I continue to call you Admin Noronha especially on Goanet? " Comment: Perhaps you could at least, if you must, make it  " Goanet Administrator". Sounds more respectable. E. htt