--- Miguel Braganza wrote: > > George Bush is not a part of "Konkan Curry". He > will not be , unless he visits this region or > impacts it for some reason. I would think that > George Bush should not be a part of Goanet but, > obviously, with three out of the four Moderators > being America based, that is not quite possible. > Mario observes: > I agree with this as a generality, especially for a Goan like Miguel who is based in India and probably takes his freedom and democracy for granted like most Indians do today. However, I believe it was Miguel, and not the TWO out of four moderators who are America-based, who gratuitously inserted the comments about Hezbollah and Israel into an article where it had no relevance and archly suggested that Israel's response be "proportional" and "to scale" when responding to attacks by those who have vowed to wipe them off the map. I then opined on the bankruptcy of the notion that a nation should be "proportional" in their response to a group that is actively trying to eliminate them from the face of the earth. > I'm not sure how George Bush got into this thread, since he had not been mentioned by anyone previously, though I suspect it may be a Freudian inclusion:-)) > Miguel writes: > > I do not know if you know me well enough to state > what is ...or is not...my forte. I have attended > International Conferences and edited the proceedings > for agencies like ICIMOD [International Council for > Intergrated Mountain Development], ANGOC [Asian NGO > Coalition], IIRR [International Institute for Rural > Reconstruction]. I do not know if your friend Mario > has comparable credentials. Just because we do not > normally boast, it is not to be presumed that we do > not know anything. > Mario observes: > Once again, Miguel has made an erroneous assumption, which is that Joseph was being loyal to a friend. Just for the record, Joseph wouldn't recognize me if I passed him on the street, yet. So far, he simply knows me as a fellow Goanetter. > I'm glad for the rest of Goanet that Joseph's simple observation that Miguel had not been specific in responding to my comments caused Miguel to discard his normal modesty and tell us about his impressive-sounding credentials as an editor of the proceedings of various international conferences. I'm sure the level of English at these conferences could use some editing from someone educated in English-speaking India. The relevance of these impressive credentials to this thread and the comments herein were less clear to me. > I must confess I have not edited the proceedings of any international conference [where some participants may not even speak English, which makes it a tough job, or perhaps an easy job, I'm not sure which:-))] though I have been responsible for publishing the minutes of the meetings of one national professional organization, one where everyone spoke fluent American and could actually challenge my descriptions of what had occurred.:-)) > In my opinion, what one knows or does not know is put on display when one writes and publishes, even on a forum such as this. Does a reader change his opinion of the written word because of the writer's credentials, if what was written made no sense? > I am less interested in the quality of a specific Goanetter's command of English, recognizing that there are some members whose primary language growing up may have been something other than English. I am more interested in their thoughts and their logic, their context and their perspective, their sensitivity to the plight of others, and their specificity in debate when they disagree with someone or something. > And in case no one has noticed, I have praised Miguel's writing when he has avoided gratuitous references that did not fit into the points he was making, in my never-humble opinion:-)) >
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