I would suggest yet another version:
TUMCHO AXIRVAD GHEUN
Translates: With your blessings/support/aid/goodwill
A touch of dignified humility innit
But I still vote, next to "DEV BOREM KORUM", Domnic's
"MOI MOGAN" the most..shortest...sweetest...all inclusive
greetings in Konkni!
Alfred
From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani corrections!
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:29:05 +0000
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> Your present Konkani expression: "TUMCHE AXIRVAD ASSUM" is not correct.
> "Tumcho/tumche, tumchi, tumchem" means 'yours', whereas "tumcher" means
"on
> you". Therefore, the correct way of the expression would be "Tumcher
> axirvad assum" 'Blessings on you'.
>
> Nevertheless, if we are to support Konkani, we must make an effort to
write
> more often in Konkani and we should not be upset or depressed if others
> correct our spellings and grammar.
>
> Dev borem korum.
>
> Moi-mogan,
> Domnic Fernandes
> Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
RESPONSE: As you will probably have noticed someone else beat you to
it and corrected me; however now my good man Alfred Tavares is -:) at
me wrong gender? Please let's sort this one out!
--
TUMCHER AXIRVAD ASSUM;
DEV BOREM KORUM.
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
