Hi Venantius, This discussion has taken a new twist :-) However, comparing languages, the Portuguese pronounce each and every letter in a word (well almost), so that psicología is pronounced as 'pisikogía'. "Lazy" adoptions of Portuguese words into Konkani have left out the last vowels of most words, such that livro became 'livr', teatro became 'tiatr', and consequently molho became molh (and then further deteriorated into moll). That is my point of view, not a scholarly study by any means.
Now coming to Japanese, there was a group of Japanese exchange students who had come to Melbourne a few years back, one of whom we hosted. When we took her to the Great Ocean Road to see the "Twelve Apostles" (these are limestone stacks in the sea, now only a few left), she met others from her group and they greeted each other with "Addê, addê", which I took to be similar to our own "arrê" as an expression of surpise. From this I surmised that the Japanese pronounce L and R as DD, as in bowdding for bowling. Maybe I'm wrong. Cheers, Gabriel. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Venantius J Pinto <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 8:32 AM > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dol Mhojea Bai - Pipitt, Kemkem, Biskutt, Bol, Boll, > Mama, tata etc - What it all means? > > Hi Gabriel, > Much appreciated. Cant helps seeing a loopy ABCD book on the lines > of cozinheiro>>cuzner, livro, ladainha, fialgo! Anyone reading this, feel > free to proceed on coming up with one. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
