RE: [Goanet]Re: Outsiders make life miserable for Goans

[Alfred de Tavares]

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From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Goanet]Re: Outsiders make life miserable for Goans
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:44:52 -0400
There is another source, for this label than, calling for Divine assistance:
At least, in the Dhobitalao area, Goans asking in the Irani groceriess for 
'PAO' got
them the handle 'goa- goencho- PAO (und�)
AT

So you think such derogatory labels for Goans aren't justified, unlike
the case of the slur terms you use when you refer to people like
'Ghantis'?  FN
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Bernado Colaco wrote:
> Maca pauh stems from the sentence deva maka pauh. It
> so happended that Goans who arrived in Mumbai with
> their gods on their shoulders and created the kudds,
> could not stand the sights while crossing rail tracks.
> It was a virtual mine field. The chappies �working� on
> the tracks would often hear maka pauh, hence the
> verbiage!
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