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>>little.....________________________________________________________________________________Selma
>> Carvalho
>>17 hrs·
>>Overheard on the bus today.
>>Te fodya kobor aha?
>>Me turning sweetly to smile
>>Te goykar kit re?
>>Me getting off at the stop, waving goodby with
>>Oi goykar.
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>>Tony Luiswere they talking about the CONREGRESS losers?
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>>Selma CarvalhoNo, our goykars were actually talking about their Portuguese
>>passports.
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>>Tony Luissince when is a 'fodya' a description of a portuguese passport????
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>>Tony Luisa bilhete is the ID card , i know
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>>Raaj ShindeWonderful! :)
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>>Selma CarvalhoNo re baba, I don't know who the fodya was. The discussion
>>before the fodya arrived on the scene was about Portuguese passports.
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>>Ruben QuadrosIn London?!? God save the Queen!
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>>Lynn Mario de SouzaA bus to Tooting?
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>>Adriano PintoNice to know that Goenkars in London are talking in Konkani. Or
>>were they trying to learn to talk. It's said when you want to learn to talk a
>>language,its easy to start with bad words.
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>>Selma CarvalhoHa ha ha, I'd be a long way from home is I was on a bus to
>>Tooting or Tooting Bec :-) a lot of Goykars, almost all who have arrived on
>>the Portuguese passport speak in Konkani. Viva Konkani.
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>>Antoinette De SouzaNice laugh i hardly understood it but just trying to
>>repeat it some words sound slang to my ears LOL
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>>Selma CarvalhoSlang is the least of it :-)
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>>Antoinette De SouzaViva Portuguesa
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>>Antoinette De SouzaHe he he
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>>Blasio FernandesIsnt fodya derived frm foder ?
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>>Tony Martin Barreto@Antoinette De Souza "Nice laugh i hardly understood it"
>>Antoinette what made you laugh without understanding it.. I don't like
>>Goenkars who love to flaunt their lack of knowledge of Konkani. So called
>>'Ghantis' learn Konkani within a month or tw...See More
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>>Selma CarvalhoTony, enough of the angry young man of Canacona act. Antoinette
>>is at least a third generation East African Goan, who lives in Nairobi. In
>>fact she is the secretary of the nairobi gymkhana . I'm sure she could speak
>>Swahili fluently. We all adapt to th...See More
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>>Tony Martin BarretoNo complaints there Selma. Some diaspora Goans love to
>>make an exhibition of their lack of knowledge of Konkani with a cynical touch
>>that suggests ....
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>>Tony Martin BarretoI know some diaspora Goans who can speak fluent Konkani
>>but take pleasure to speak it with some alien accent that is obviously forced.
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>>Selma CarvalhoI also know Goans who have never set foot outside of their tiny
>>villages, who yet do Konkani Church readings in an English accent. I will
>>accept a lot of Diaspora Goans look down on Konkani and when I was young, I
>>was treated very shabbily because we were a 'Konkani speaking household.' Of
>>course by the time, I was seven I had far outsmarted and outspoken all those
>>who came from Engleesh speaking households.
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>>Selma CarvalhoTony Martin Barreto, just a correction. fodya doesn't mean cunt
>>at all. It means fucker. And so the translation is does that fucker know. The
>>word fodya from the Portuguese foda or foder meaning fuck, and possibly has
>>the same etymology as the word fuck, which comes from the german to strike or
>>foedere, to dig holes to plant (wiki) Hah! Who knows Konkani now? :-)
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>>Blasio FernandesHas anyone heard of beber comer foder? These verbos mean to
>>drink, to eat, to fuck. Thats how a life of a goan man was described in
>>short.
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>>Selma CarvalhoHey, I can use that. Good one.
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>>Tony LuisIs this allowed on FB !!! The language !!! is the multi lingual
>>Kama Sutra or a version thereof your next book Selma Carvalho......lol ?
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>>Selma CarvalhoThis is all research for my next book :-)
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>>Adriano PintoAre you serious Selma ? Are you going to quote this
>>conversation. ? It's alright if it is a joke book. Will make people laugh.
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>>Rima TravassoMove over E L James....
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>>Cecil PintoActually Tony Martin Barretois right. Fodya is Konkani slang for
>>vagina. Something you would call a male. Cunt is the closest English
>>equivalent. It comes from fud/fodo/fodri.
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>>Ruben QuadrosThis is proving to be a highly educative thread to say the
>>least. If I may add from my exhaustive knowledge on the subject, fodya would
>>be short for fodrechea which would be fucker. The level of abuse to call a
>>man a cunt is rather alien to these parts, though in the west it would be
>>more insulting to be called a cunt than a fucker, the latter tilting more
>>towards a compliment. :)
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>>Selma CarvalhoI agree with Ruben. The word fodya has its roots in the
>>Portuguese word foder. The word fodri is used for female genitalia, and comes
>>from the Marathi word. The two are not used synonymously. But I'm calling
>>more linguistic help to decide this Joel DSand Teotonio R. de Souzaany help
>>would be appreciated.
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>>Teotonio R. de SouzaSelma, if you already have my Goa outgrowing
>>Postcolonialism you will get some help there! Look for Lusophonic dialogue.
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>>Joel DSSelma bai, poilech pavtt tuvem boroilaim tem vachlem tedna mhaka
>>"koch" zalem (something like taken aback). Teg-chovg amche Goenkar osleam
>>mitt-miriavont sobdancho sod laitat - Fred, AveCleto, adi. Punn urleleank,
>>boroitana tori, *** lailear sobhta, mhojea hispan. Tuka koxem dista?
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>>Selma CarvalhoRight next to my bed dr Teotonio R. de Souza. According to dr
>>Teo's book, the word fodrichem comes from the Portuguese fodida, as in
>>fucking. This may also help.
>>http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Portuguese...
>>Portuguese Swear Wordswww.youswear.com
>>How to Swear in Portuguese - A puta da tua tia! - Your aunt is a whore!
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>>Selma CarvalhoJoel, nothing to be bashful about it. The etymology of words is
>>a fascinating topic and tells us a lot about our history. The fact that I'm a
>>girl should not preclude me from having such conversations. I assure you I
>>don't go around speaking like this but living in London now, I do use the F
>>word occasionally.
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>>Joel DSTaken in the right spirit! Thanks.
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>>Gaspar Almeidawe often on the net code it as 'Z' series for the equivalent
>>word in Konkani. Seriously speaking! Konkani is a colourful language,
>>nevertheless.
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>>Adriano PintoI have read most of the comments here and that brings to my mind
>>the richness of Konkani language. Although the word came from Portuguese our
>>ancestors saw that they ultilised it even better. Just look at Fud/Fodo/Fodri
>>how they are used. Fud is alwaysused to discribe what is small (girl) Fodo
>>grown up (woman) after puberty and Fodri (old women) at monopause. This shows
>>the dept or richness of the language. In English we would just call cunt in
>>abuse.
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>>Ruben QuadrosSelma for the sake of your upcoming book on Konkani etymology,
>>I've been thinking about the topic and I think I can build more upon our
>>perceived meanings provided there are no corruptible elements like children
>>on this thread. And I certainly hope Monica is not here. The three main curse
>>words used in our main bhas are Chediechea, Fodrichea and Zhounechea. I think
>>Chediechea is undoubtedly son of a prostitute. Now coming to Fodrichea and
>>Zhounechea, I would think the latter would be son of a fucker. So the short
>>of it being Zhounea would be Fucker no? Probably someone who is an occasional
>>random or indiscreet fucker. So Fodya which is the most commonly used cuss
>>word because of the phonetic value and the power of the "F" effect, would
>>probably denote someone who is permanently living in a Fodo. So I guess Fodya
>>adds a sense of permanency over Zhouno.
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>>Please do not use my real name in the list of credits should you desire to
>>reduce this thread to published printed material. ;)
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>>Selma CarvalhoAlso for our sake Ruben Quadros, let's hope no one from Vasco
>>buys this book :-) my mother-in-law is apparently putting out an ad for my
>>last book in the church newsletter (no jokes this). I shudder to think where
>>she shall have to take an ad out for my next book :-) thankfully Monica is
>>not on FB.
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>>Ruben QuadrosThe Portuguese though are a very sweet race it seems. Your aunt
>>is a whore is actually a documented Curse phrase. I care a flying fuck if all
>>my aunts are whores.
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>>Selma CarvalhoDon't forget the portuguese were sailors first, and probably
>>swore like sailors. See my interest in this is purely historical :-)
>>4 mins· Like THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Every individual has a place to fill in the
>>world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
