Dear Floriano, Please note that I am not a salesman! I have only stated the facts as I perceive them. Whether they are one-sided or many-sided is for the reader to judge.
I do not think the godfather of Romi Konkani and grandfather of tiatr will take kindly your running down this cultural form in addition to not patronizing it, for it is the mainstay of Romi Konkani sommelons; it pulls in the crowds for some part of the duration. The politicians too know its value; hence, come election time, they hire tiatrists to extoll their virtues and work in song. I do not see how a title can evoke any pride in anyone. And how can you fault someone for not evoking such pride in you? Standardization can happen only with the cooperation of writers. But this is not fortcoming. And the absence of an enforcing authority makes the task infinitely worse. I am doing my bit but have not met with any success. I ran a series of 20 articles in GULAB; but, sad to say, even the regular writers in the same magazine did not make an iota of change in their orthography. In spite of an open invitation, no one bothered to tell me where I am going wrong, assuming this was the reason. If at all you see some sort of standardization in Romi Konkani magazines, it is because of the strenuous work put in by a handful of proof-readers. The authors are least bothered. No English magazine will condescend to publish an article with badly-flawed orthography. If a Konkani magazine were to follow this policy, it would fold up in next to no time. With the help of an unimpeachable example, I have already provided an argument which could, in a way, be used to prove the correctness of 'palatadacho'. I would say that your 'paldadacho' in the subject line is even worse. I did not point to your pecadillos (as Fausto has done) and say that people living in glass houses sould not pelt stones at others. Could you please identify the "so called fathers of the Konkani language"? On 27 May 2010 "floriano" <[email protected]> wrote: Nice attempt Senhor Borges, But you are not selling anything to me or to Goans who know and speak their Konkani. You are trying to show me as 'one sided' [against Shetgaonkar and pro tiatrists] which is not so. But then, you have the right to feel free. This is democracy. I, for one, do not see tiatrs. And they do not turn me on. Tiatrs need to evolve to a greater extent to sensitize and/or entertain Goan audiences to a far superior degree than what is happening today.When we see master-pieces around with other languages or cultures, our tiatrs are a damp squib. But then, that is all we have and we have to make do. I have not seen the movie in question yet. But I have noted the superior quality of this production. My only hurt is that the Title does not evoke the pride that it should of the superlative work Shetgaonkar has put in ... going by that I have read and heard about the movie. Questioning the aberrations in a superlative work of art raises far too many eyebrows than the normal grind. As a Konkani enthusiast yourself, I would want you to take this serious concern of non-standardized konkani words to the fore and initiate some action. Regarding 'Buimearantlo Munis' , in my kirkol konkani, all I had to do was to insert a couple of apostrophes to segregate the vowels i.e. Buim'ea'rantlo which unfortunately I missed to do. My apologies. And yes, as it is written it could, to a non konkani person, sound like " Bui' mea' rantlo' Hence, whatever you may do, you will have to give me a convincing argument that 'PALTADACHO MUNIS does sound like PALTODCHO or POLTODCHO or PALTODICHO MUNIS" Rest assured, my indignation is only meant to sound the ears of the so called fathers of the Konkani language. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org Sebastian Borges
