I had read that Wikipedia is an unreliable site for authentic information but never gave much importance to that complaint. However, upon clicking on the link provided by FN, I realised the enormity of this disservice. It is a perfect example of polluting the internet data-base which I always deprecate as a crime on future seekers of information. The information provided by the link is thoroughly spurious. Fact and fiction are so intimately interwoven that it would be wiser not to trust it at all. To give just two examples: (1) in the box (Sotmantam) which purports to be a Konkani rendition of the prayer <I believe> only the first six lines belong to this prayer; I could not figure out the source of the rest. The caption too is entirely unrelated to the contents of the box. (2) Several Bombay publications have been listed as being published from Goa. The page appears to have been contribured by a very ignorant person. I believe it would be a great service if this page is expunged altogether. Sebastian Borges On Sat, 14 May 2011 16:47:34 +0530, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote:
> FARIZEN nhoim punn FARIZEV > Sorry, but I checked and *farizen* is how the dictionary renders it. I'm not making a accuracy or otherwise about the dictionary, but just saying that this is how Dacho Furtad rendered it in 1930. (The reprints of his dictionary do not acknowledge his work. But Dacho Furtad is credited with the Dicionar Concanim-Inglez of 1930, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goan_Catholic_literature ) FN Sebastian Borges
