Four years ago I had handed my literary work "KONKNNI SYNONYMS" Eka sobdachem dusrem utor to Dalgado Konknni Akademi for publication The then secretary, Mr. Jose Salvador had the book reviewed by Fr. Pratap Naik. After reviewing the same I was informed that most of the konknni spellings were wrong. I was given a book KONKNNI BOROUNCHI PROMANN RIT written by Fr. Pratap Naik and i had to rewrite the whole book, with the new spellings eg. Zai (want) changed to zay, maim (mother) changed to may with circumflex on a. pai (father) changed to pay. bond (close) changed to bon'd etc. After doing all the changes, which was quite time consuming, I handed over my work to Mr. Vincy Quadros, the new secretary of Dalgado Konknni Akademi who had replaced Mr. Jose Salvador. My work was reviewef and corrected by many prominent writers, Mr. Thomazinho Cardoz and Mr. Willi Goes to name a few, Again I was handed over my work for final improvement. The same was done and handed back to Mr. Vincy, but then I was told that Konknni is again undergoing a change as such my work was held back. Dalgado Akademi came up with a new book "ROMI LIPINT KONKNNI BOROVPIANK ANI VACHPIANK SANGATI" Here the older version of Konknni was brought back into use, a good thing in my opinion, as zay, may, pay were creating confusion. YesterdayI happen to come across Goencho Avaz a neespaper edited by Mr. Jose Salvador and what was shocking is that here konknni is written as prescribed by Fr. Pratap Naik now what I have been given to understand is that, that the two konknni pundits namely Fr. Pratap Naik and Mr. S.M. Borges are at loggerheads each presesenting his version of Konknni as the right format. This is detrimental for the future of Konknni my humble request to Konknni writers, academicians professors tiatrists to come together and decide on a proper style of writing Konknni which will not create confusion, all for the betterment of our Mother tongue Konknni.Thanks. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
