Cecil, The debate below is about obscenely best-selling authors twisting the English language out of their laziness, or without any method to their madness.
The debate on English in today's Goa is quite another thing. If I'm being accurate here, it saw Selma faulting Goans back in Goa (probably first generation learners) for speaking poor quality English, with others joining in (was it Santosh Helekar?) to suggest that if they can't speak English well they (meaning, these sections) should probably stick to Konkani. At least, that is how I understood things... So how does the Tata Festival debate add to the Goanet discussion? Needless to say, I'm not being critical for the sake of being so (actually, I did appreciate the points made, specially by amcho Jerry Pinto, and even tried to look for a video report online). But it just had me confused somewhat as I think the two discussions have very little in common ... apart from the involvement of English in contemporary India in both cases. Please correct me if I understood things wrong. FN On 26 November 2011 22:51, Cecil Pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_take-liberties-with-english-dont-outrage-its-modesty_1608140 > > Take liberties with English, don't outrage its modesty > Published: Sunday, Nov 6, 2011, 10:30 IST | Updated: Sunday, Nov 6, > 2011, 0:48 IST > By Rito Paul | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA > > It was an ambush. There is no other word to describe the panel > discussion on ‘Taking Liberties with Language: How far can the English > Language be stretched by Indians’ at the Tata Literature Live > festival.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
