Mario
Firstly, with greatest respect, you have failed to answer my question and
are trying to weasel out, as usual, with some absurdity. Secondly, I have
never claimed to be an intellectual as you mistakenly surmise. Thirdly, all
comments can indeed be written without the absurdity of the smiley face as
specifically used by you.
Jorge and I effectively challenged your assertion on Goan surnames and you
have tried to duck out of a sensible response by suggestiong earlier, that
we did not have a humorous gene in our bodies. I therefore ask, yet again,
why do you try desperately to be clever when you are not so and when
cleverness clearly does not suit you at all? I also respectfully ask, when
on earth are you truly going to get to know thyself as the person you really
are?
On Goanet there is invariably much serious discussion on a range of themes
among many in the Goan intelligentsia. Ultra lightweight commentary like
yours, on this theme of Goan surnames, is not funny when it comes from
someone, who I ascertained through personal discussion in Goa and elsewhere,
is widely recognised on Goanet as a joke rather than a joker.
Cornel
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--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mario
Like most things that come from you, I am highly sceptical that, "if you
visit Portugal you will see that almost all their surnames were copied from
us Goan Catholics" :-)). Your smiley at the end of your statement, as
above, does not amuse me at all as I am more interested in the authenticity
or not of your above statement. So, please explain,
without a smiley, how Catholic Goans got Portuguese names in the first
place, if not from the Portuguese who baptised mainly Hindu Goans as well as
ruled Goa for 451 years? In this process, I believe that Hindu surnames were
forsaken for Portuguese surnames. This is indeed the conventional wisdom on
this issue. However, I and I'm sure others on Goanet, await your scholarly
input on my
specific question above.
With much anticipation,
Mario observes:
Cornel,
You can't be serious. Anyone who has visited Portugal would soon
recognize that they all have Goan Catholic
surnames, which could only come from them having copied these names from
Goan Catholics :-))
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