I agree with Sebastian. On a different forum, I wrote to Floriano that there is not much difference between ‘Paltadcho’ and ‘Paltadacho’ and the additional “a” in the latter word is supposed to be a silent one but Floriano has continued with his stubbornness.
I fully respect Floriano as a social activist fighting for various Goan causes but in the present case, he is clearly making much ado about nothing. To set the records straight, there is a concurrent advertisement which has been appearing in the local dailies for the last few days, with the words “Paltadacho Manis” written in Devnagiri script, which should give everyone a clear indication that that is what the Director Laxmikant Shetgaonkar always meant to be conveyed in the first place. Kindly check out the same at the link below: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1377617&l=edf9b04878&id=1187066172 On a related note, I am curious to know whether the last 'O' in Floriano is a silent one or whether it needs to be pronounced. Cheers Sandeep ************************************************ Sebastian Borges wrote: 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"?
