Dear Cecil, There was no need to berate Helga publicly. Helga has no claims to being the literati of Goa. She had merely written a witty post on the subject of inculcating our culture in second-generation expats.
Far from discussing the contents of her subject, I am dismayed that you saw it fit to discuss the coinage of a word no doubt written in jest. I'm sure Helga did not intend for this word to be included in the next edition of the Oxford dictionary, after due consideration from Cecil Pinto as to whether it merits such inclusion. After all, Cecil Pinto is the last word on words. No need to get your Gonads in a twist. Selma -------------------------------------- --- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toronto based writer Ben Antao responded to me > privately regarding the term > Helga has coined. I am sharing his mail below with > you all with Ben's > explicit permission. > > Cheers! > > Cecil > > ====== > > > At 09:35 PM 8/22/06 +0530, you wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ben Antao <ben.antao at rogers.com> > Date: 22-Aug-2006 16:19 > Subject: Gonadians > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dear Cecil: > > Please tell that Helga that she's has no literary > imagination to coin > that horrible word "Gonadians". The word is dreadful > in taste and > mindless in style. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org