Dear Sebastian Borges, For that matter, even our NRI Commissioner Bab Eduardo Faleiro will often end a conversation with a "Borem zaum" (May you prosper).
On the other hand, an editor like Rajan Narayan oft repeats "Dev borem korum" (his preferred spelling, if not mistaken). Each term may have its own connotations and subtelties... just as Rajan's "red soil of Goa" might seem logical and representative, except that the soil can be a sandy yellow, alluvial and loamy and silvery bauxite, apart from the lateritic and ferric aluminium oxide red in parts of the state! FN On 7 March 2010 11:00, Sebastian Borges <[email protected]> wrote: > every week. On getting the alms from my mother, > she never said "Dev borem korum" but always "Bore..m > zaum, Bab zaum" i.e. "May you prosper, may you beget > a baby boy." Perhaps, even at that time, the > expressions had not percolated to the grassroot level. -- Frederick Noronha Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography :: blogging P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 A:784 Saligao 403511 Goa India
