Cecil & Frederick I think you are mixing two issues. On the one hand, their are descriptive names for places (or people for that matter) which evolve over time and are sometimes based on complex histories. So it is not unusual for a place to have many variants not simply by language as both of you point out (hardly an issue), but over time. That is not my concern. In fact, it would not bother me if someone referred to Panjim as Pooli or Siolim as Colva as long as I understood what they meant. In their world such fantastic usages may work.
The issue as I see it, is having an official name so the business of the city can be conducted. Take for example, Eddie's issue with the cheque. What if he wanted to make it payable to the "City of Ponde" and wanted the Panjim clerk to accept it. By your logic, she should. What if she decided that he should write the cheque to "City of Party"? Should the bank accept such a cheque into the city's account? Should there not be any common standard? This is my last email on this topic. George --- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are internationally known German cities. If they can manage with > variations in the spelling of their names, why can't we? > > In almost any country, specially those that were once colonised, you will > find variations in the way a city name is spelt. As long as it does not > cause any major problems I feel we should let it be. There is a richness in > diversity. --- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try to push for one over the other probably betrays a hegemonistic > attitude. Anyway, that's how life is... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
