2009/11/25 Carvalho <[email protected]> [1] Here is some interesting information. I have copied this from the Oxford dictionary, which is a chart for the usage of the word "Goanese". [2] Jose Colaco's response regarding the word "Goanese" is utter balderdash. [3] So I ask the doctor again, please do provide me with proof that for the British, who coined the word, the word was indeed a pejorative. [4] Please Doc, for once, put your money where your mouth is and give us the real goods instead of the Bahamian snake dance :-) [5] Then I will gracefully accept that I am wrong.
RESPONSE: It is possible that I may be able to convince (wishful thinking on my part) Selma that the offensiveness of any word isn't necessarily at the foot of the originator of the word ....but its later usage and connotation. As an example: Think again of the word "Negro". Is it a word Selma will use in public - in the country of balderdash? BTW: I sincerely hope you are not looking for any 'real goods' from any Afro-descent 'snake dancers' (;-) jc PS: The word Goanese is first of all "incorrect" ....and secondly WAS used by many folks from India to look down upon Goans. The other words which were used in a similar manner were "Maka Pao", Salazar, Dukor Khao, drunkards, Half-Castes and "Cook and Butler people". If you do not really know ....ask Before that ...Please get off ultra-defensive hobby-horse of yours
