Dr Jose Colaco is one of the great masters of editing or trimming text to his own advantage and all readers of Goanet can profit from his expertise, a case study of which I present to you in the form of three email exchanges between him and me. The latest is placed first but perhaps you will gain more if you start from the bottom.
Observe very carefully how the great master of manipulating language has skilfully admitted to me that I am right and he is wrong, while most other people will think he is still attacking me or understanding what is going on. Anyway Dotor, although your admission of error is rather oblique, thanks all the same. Coming from someone Frederick Noronha describes as one who can NEVER be wrong, I regard this as a great compliment. Cheers Augusto In Goanet Digest, Vol 7, Issue 782 jc wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:10:43 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Caught in the act Message-ID: <caa-ye9xvpnzfuzpay4j5kuuj6_zvrwrects0shhuc3fpc78...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 re: jc: And .... would you (additionally) please advise us of what MOIDECARS are famous for .....and why? [1] augusto pinto < [email protected]> responded : Well the VILLAGE is famous for ....... JC COMMENT: Thank you ProfSor sahab. [2] augusto pinto < [email protected]> responded : And it is a village which is unique in the unique form of humour they created, in the form of famous folk tales that make fun of themselves ........ JC COMMENT: Wow ...... (:-) best jc In Goanet Digest, Vol 7, Issue 781 Augusto Pinto wrote: Message: 10 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 23:45:07 +0530 From: augusto pinto <[email protected]> To: goanet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Caught in the act Message-ID: <CABzMD-UB4O4PqC9QHRi1upE2yO=s4zczmu13x_jhvrbgi5v...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 re: Abusing Moidekars is unwelcome. Dear Dotor May I reply to your queries in-line: jc: You do ask reasonable questions. Some words are too elitist for my simple mind. AP: I love that oh-so-innocent tone you use. Most people on this forum and I certainly are aware of your mastery with words. jc: Even so, please allow me to get straight to the meat of the matter... AP: O dear! So you simply want to dodge my questions and confirm what I expected viz. there is no reasoning behind your abuse of the villagers of Moira - it's just your delight at abusing, in a very sophisticated way no doubt, those whom you chose to be your victims for the day. jc: ... by responding to Q5 (hypothetical as it might be) AP: But Dotor, master of the language as you are, surely you, more than anyone else, are aware that my question was not merely hypothetical, but also rhetorical. You know very well that I am saying that I am not willing to go about stereotyping people, certainly not an entire village and certainly not an entire country, on the basis of a few encounters that I have had. So all those silly challenges that you throw are irrelevant. jc: And .... would you (additionally) please advise us of what Moidecars are famous for .....and why? AP: Well the village is famous for originating the plantations of large sized bananas, and onions and other such excellent vegetable products. It also has thrown up a number of talented individuals in a variety of fields like Jack de Sequira in politics, Charles Correa in architecture, Teotonio de Souza in historical studies, and Sylvestre Nazare the nuclear scientist and so on. And it is a village which is unique in the unique form of humour they created, in the form of famous folk tales that make fun of themselves, unlike, quite unlike most other people, who delight in ridiculing others. Cheers Augusto In Goanet Digest, Vol 7, Issue 779 jc wrote: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 20:50:41 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Caught in the act Message-ID: <caa-ye9zv7doejywl-j_ec7fsxgfidrauqpxw2qorfg7zhts...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 re: "Moidecarponn i.e. abuse is welcome." augusto pinto < [email protected]> wrote: 1) On what basis do you come to the conclusion that Moidecarponn = abuse? (For those who do not understand Konkani, Moidecarponn means the quality of being a person from the village of Moira. jc seems to be creating a new stereotype which suggests - ALL the people of Moira are Abusive) 2) Is your reasoning jc, if indeed there is reasoning behind your slur, based on inductive or deductive reasoning? 3) If it is inductive what is the principle on which you make this statement? 4) If it is deductive quote the statements from which you reached these conclusions? 5) Let me put a hypothetical case before you: if I said that Bahamanian doctors of Indian origin are just dirty old men with dirty old minds, would it be right on my part, if I were to come to this conclusion on the basis of just one or two examples? 6) Do you think you gain anything, apart from an ego-trip, to randomly abuse other people the way you do? RESPONSE: Dear AP, It is so delightful to hear from you. You do ask reasonable questions. Some words are too elitist for my simple mind. Even so, please allow me to get straight to the meat of the matter by responding to Q5 (hypothetical as it might be) Here is my answer: IF you can provide ONE solitary independently verifiable example of a "dirty old mind" in the population sample referred to by you, I'd say that you would be justified. Now, would you like me to refer you to Abuse perpetrated by Moidecars right here on Goanet? And .... would you (additionally) please advise us of what Moidecars are famous for .....and why? jc -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal Moira, Bardez Goa, India E [email protected] P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350
