-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Fernando and Friends While this dialogue (however intense) about the script is going on, I would like to add my personal experience about the language. This happenend in 2001 in a Government Office in Margao. I was in Margao to deal with the issue of "succession certificate" - my parents having died without a will. I was told that birth certificate could not be traced - therefore it was believed that by the officers concerned that either the declared date of my birth for the search of the certificate was wrong or I did not give proper names of myself or of my parents.
My stand was of course different. All discussions were being held in Konkanni. Finally I was told by the Government Officer (in Konkanni) that *he was willing to conduct the search if I could provide additional confirmed data: SSC Certificate (the word used was Matric Certificate)* Well, my response to that request / suggestion was simple: *Sir I have not passed SSC.* He rebutted: *So you are not educated then*. My simple answer was: *If you say so, may be not for you!* You can draw your own conclusions! or should we say: HEM SONSARANT SOGLEM KUI - Regards berardo
