Sez who? Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paulo Colaco Dias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Shut-up, men!
> Richard, before the English words, lots and lots of Portuguese words were > introduced into catholic Konkani such as vestido, cozinha, juramento, > cozinheiro, patrao, sossegado, (!!!!!), (a)cabar, etc. etc. > > But I was recently told that the real Konkani has proper words for > everything and in fact, Konkani speaking Hindus do not mix Portuguese and > English with their Konkani... Is that true? > > Paulo. > > PS: Ever since I learned "Ugi Rao", can't stop using it! :-) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:goanet- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of richard > > Sent: 31 December 2001 19:59 > > To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! > > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Shut-up, men! > > > > Hi, > > In fact many times I laugh at my own self when I think of my younger days > > and the way we used to pronounce the words without in the least bit > > realizing that they were English words. > > The railways tracks were just a few metres away from my aunt's house in > > Majorda and every time a train passed we used to say "Guddus train geli". > > It > > was much much later that I realized that it was actually 'goods' > > train.Some > > of these English words rendered into Konkani were brought by people coming > > from Bombay as the famous word, auntie. > > Richard Cabral > > _______________________________________________ > Goanet mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
