Dear Gabe: You can't blame Augusto for not knowing RAFlish and phrases like "purple piss"! A Google search later, I realise that Goanet's use of this term is fourth in the entire universe.
The Urban Dictionary, that fountainhead of all that is beautiful in the English language, terms it racist: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=purple%20piss Now will someone write a counter-poem please :-) FN PS: The Rt. Hon. Augusto Pinto is no professor. Not yet. Though as you know, in Portuguese usage of colonial Goa, a professor/professora could have even been a primary school teacher! In this case, he's a lecturer of Business Communication and English, if I got the technical names of the subjects right, at a college in Panjim. For sure, he is not qualified in RAFlish. Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 28 September 2010 20:41, Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > From the Royal Air Force; Which I belonged to. > > http://www.e-goat.co.uk/wiki//index.php?title=Purple_Piss > > It's all colloquial, no surprises it would escape some country bumpkin. So > have to spell out Colloquial as well.... > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colloquial > > -- > DEV BOREM KORUM > > Gabe Menezes. >
