2011/11/28 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا<[email protected]>:
>
>Why have all the Goan experts in the Queen's English simply migrated to Texas
>and Drayton?
>
I noticed that, using the well-honed skills of distortion and incomprehension,
Admin Noronha has now left far behind the simple reasonable suggestion on the
need to teach one's kids grammatically and lexically correct English,
especially if one adopts this foreign language as one's primary language,
rather than one's own mother tongue. Instead, the Admin has migrated far and
wide looking for some kind - any kind - of moral high ground, into faraway
places such as Texas and Drayton, and onto distant topics such as racism,
elitism, exclusivism and class bias. So before he finds Nazism from his
standard deck of cards to play on any topic of discussion on Goanet, or gets
lost further in the wilderness, let me tell you that people in Texas do not
speak Queen's English. They speak the Texan variant of English. But the
important thing from the standpoint of drawing the correct analogy to the
situation described by me in this thread is, I am yet to find any
native Texan who shuns his mother tongue and tries to speak Konknni, instead.
If I find such a Texan, I will make an analogous suggestion to him/her, namely,
that he/she should try to learn and teach his/her kids the correct Konknni
grammar and lexicon.
Cheers,
Santosh
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