Hi Eric I can see how hard you try to present a post coherently on Goanet and good luck to you even if your posts (and I say this helpfully and kindly) tend to lack in meaningfulness, syntax, grammar and adequate spelling. Nevertheless, my genuine offer of help to all those on Goanet challenged by English presentation, stands to all, free of charge, including you. I suggest that, the first thing to do is to get rid of your vague and flowery presentational style that, no doubt you acquired in Bombay a long while ago and is clearly, a millstone round your neck!. I hope that the moderators will permit me to retain the whole of your text below so that Goanet readers can surmise the situation about which I write herein. I am afraid your somewhat jaundiced reference to the teachers of the Goan High School, Mombasa is thoroughly uninformed as so much else that you try to write about, invariably without providing any evidence for your utterances. Those teachers in Mombasa did their best in the circumstances in which they found themselves and I keep in touch with some of them, and in appreciation, send them copies of books and journal articles that I publish in the international press. They are worthy of this small token of my appreciation and for their recognition of my early particular talent in English (apart from other subjects) that led them to single me out and read my essays in class. I also won several prizes for English from fairly early on including for those I submitted to publications in the UK before I ever thought I might conceivably ever get to the UK. Finally, for you and that recent Goanet buddy of yours on caste who feels the need to chastise my "Queen's English" as he calls it, please note that I only humbly use Kunbi Vaddo, London English and not the Queen's English at all. However, it serves me well in many publications but of which my Goanet output is quite small. Cordially, and thankfully, especially, for helping me to relish my ever so humble responses to you. Cornel DaCosta, Kunbi Vaddo, London, UK. eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From the english spoken in latter day latin- invaded England turned Brittania ( Caesar first, and then the Normans). The real thing is 'dankin', so 'thank' you, Angala Merkel, and all your friends in Anglia on the Rhine. I used 'gracias', when i meant to say 'gracious', in a recent post: a sneaky attempt make it to that special class - car washed, manicured lawn, vindaloo chef, perhaps. In his 'History of the Enjlish Language', the Canadian, McNeil writes of the adoption of French as the language of Court after the Norman conquest, until the abolition in revenge over the War of the Roses three centuries later. The trade school kid spoke Germanic, he claims, not so the ones' out of Eton and Harrow - in a show the flag scene, he writes, the special class obtains it's 'victuals' when 'famished', from a 'poultry' farm: Saxon hicks could feed on chicken when hungry ! McNeil is a tad outdated today - with a little prodding from those 'B' teachers at Goan High, Mombasa, a nice Goan kid, by any chosen name, can 'elegantly' (latin) out-'Victorianise' (latin) any 'to the manor born' scholar(latin) out of Oxford. eric.
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