Re: [Goanet] Language gives hint of coconut's importance to Goa: new book
Dear Frederich Language is a power of expression and a creative language like Konkanim should be protected and improved for the future generation only Goans can do to its own language and not the migrants. Konkanim language is very rich, like rich Goan culture that is a product of hundred and thousand years of existence and as a great center of trade in the past. I had a discussion with our late Dr. Olivinho Gomes who was an icon in Konkanim language as well he new Sanscrit, Marati and other languages; he told me that the Konkanim Language is very rich in vocabulary compared to Marati and he gave me several examples. I was emotionally very proud of my heritage and Goan Identity and to this ocasion I sudgest you to conduct a research work about Konkanim language using different expression for the same subject and the results should be published in a new book that will document the creativity in our mother tonge. The new book itself will emerge as new force to Rebuild Goa and preserve the Goan Identity. Thank you Manuel --- Read all Goanet messages at: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ ---
Re: [Goanet] Language gives hint of coconut's importance to Goa: new book
vanz (empty coconut) Vanz is barren, so this must mean barren coconut tree (that does not yield fruit. 'One recent rage in countries like the Philippines is virgin coconut oil -- extracted from fresh coconut, not copra, by mechanical or natural means, with or without using heat. To protect the oil's essential properties chemical refining, bleaching or deodorizing is avoided. It is believed to be high in minerals and vitamins' - I do not know how far this is true - has any one compared the nutritional value of regular and 'virgin' ? Prior to extracting oil from 'copra' it is sun dried for a couple of days, and the oil practically oozes! 'lime made out of dried coconut leaves burn to ask' what does this mean?? Thanks Maurice D.
