I had to do impositions a hundred times each time the class teacher caught
me speaking Konkani during my school days
"I shall not speak in Konkani in the classroom" I shall not..... on and
on.
Inspite of that when I went to college, I hardly could speak a full sentence
in English at a time. But that was a temporary setback because the English
grammatical foundation was perfect.
floriano
goasuraj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "goanet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fined for speaking Konkani
This is shocking to hear that in Goa itself one was fined for speaking in
Konkani. It's very difficult to save a language when one gets a lashing
for speaking it.
selma
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, edward desilva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Reply:
We were fined for speaking konkani at Monte Guirim, in the
same token we were NOT allowed to keep any pocket money, we
were beaten if we had any money on us.
How did we pay the fine? some more beating :-(.
ED.
