Frederick FN Noronha 'rote': The challenge is what happens to those
STILL STRUGGLING TO PICK UP those skills. Do we treat them with
disdain, charity, condescension or hope?
Khommenth:
a: Those who truly struggle - deserve our helping hand and encouragement.
b: The tratamenth with "disdain, charity & condescension" [ that FN
refers to ] should ONLY be reserved FOR those who stubbornly oppose
(often using tangential convoluted arguments, "distortion and
incomprehension") the simple and reasonable suggestion that parents
need to teach their kids grammatically and lexically correct English,
especially if the language is "foreign" to them .....like Tamil or
Urdu would be to many Goan parents.
c: Interesting that FN asks, in one breath: 'What makes English a
"foreign language"?' and then refers us to the TOEFL scores 'specially
in places like Goa'.
d: It is either that we have a Forked tongue speaking potential MLA in
Saligao or that the F in TOEFL refers to Frederick.
jc
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