Appreciate it Tony!
+
A fine example of the manner by which a response may be proffered. Q>a kind
response!
No need for pointless xanneaponn/a, as is needlessly de rigueur for many
Goans.
Venantius
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:53 PM Tony de Sa wrote:
> I seem to recall hazily...
>
> 2 vonnati = 1
I seem to recall hazily...
2 vonnati = 1 ginatti - sounds nice in Konkani, don vonatti ek ginatti ...
2 ginatti = 1 solgem
2 solgem = I podd
4 podd = 1 kudov
4 Kuddov = 1 maund
My apologies if I have got the measures in the wrong order or if the
quantities are wrong. I shall be happy to be
That's right.
I recall all.
Except: kharab, neel, padam
Was Arab a thousand crores or thousand lakhs? I recall it as being a
phenomenally big figure... like the ones Modi often flings at us today.
Please could we try to get specific definitions (and weights, measures) of
each... as a way of
Did Goa have to trail the Indian lakhs, crores and lakh-crores model instead of
progressing to the millions and billions that the world uses. They did that for
their seers and maunds weight measures so why not for the numbers.
Roland.
> On Jan 13, 2021, at 3:26 PM, Frederick Noronha
> wrote:
https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/fS9apcEm7c0wSruBVMAHkP/From-maund-to-ton-The-story-of-measures-in-India.html
... who remembers what the traditional weights and measures were in Goa? I
remember these were stamped out quite forcefully. Of course, some still
live on. FN
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FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
