Thanks to all GOANET moderators, nameless volunteers, founders, followers,
readers and posters!
Great job guys!
I read GOANET everyday, even though I do not post more often here.
One suggestion here: (Readers who never post, don't you feel guilty? Come on,
contribute something)
Keep one day or two reserved only for the NEW NEVER_POSTED BEFORE GOANETTERS!
That should be your day only.
If you are shy, moderators please eliminate their names, emails, etc.
We want to see hidden readers who smile when they read posts they like, grind
their teeth when they see posters they hate, and really want to see what's in
their mind.
Or do you think there no hidden GOANETTER readers at all?
Only 30-40 odd Goanetters?
New hidden Goanetters , show us what you want posted on GOANET,
Tell us who you like, who you hate, who should stay and repost - you are free
to express yourself. But if id is not known I can see some abuse here!
Just a suggestion!
Nice posts make Goanet readers happy.
Bad (Hate) posts make blood chill, but they keep GOANET GOING! without them it
would be boring like an imaginary world populated with only good people: Can
you believe, there would be no need for priests, monks, police, etc.? There
would be no stories, movies, drugs and GOAN ASSEMBLY and MINISTERS.
Newspapers would close down, people would lose jobs, religions would be
obsolute. Economy would go down the drain.
So we do need Bad posts along with Good posts! (Really?)
I'd like to thank GOANET for being very practical and not like an elitist Goan
institution from the yester era!
Above all, you have introduced and encouraged KONKANI on GOANET.
Let our true Goan traditions and culture be always celebrated here or else our
culture will perish!
More than discussions we need to portray Goanity here! Kitt mutt re Jaki?
Be proud to write Konkani posts with pride.
Write genuine JoeGoaUk words like pipprimutt the way we spoke in Saxtti before
we learnt Inglez, Purtuguez!
There is no Wren and Martin looking over our shoulder here. Gone are the days
when we had to kneel on stones while in School for getting caught not speaking
English (Konkani)
We are already tired speaking that English with effort.
THINKING IN KONKANI, translating into English and saying it in strange accents
fast and making it look like we are English just to please our English boss.
Our computer processor is already tired and exhausted after looping through
years of recycling this again and again. I envy English Goans who only speak
one adopted mothertongue, English!
Can you see Europeans learning and speaking in Hindi when India becomes Numero
Uno in the world?
And in Goa today, If I speak in Konkani, first of all Goans will give me that
strange look and then deliberately reply in English.
Even migrants speak true Konkani.
Even in Hell, English Goans try to speak only English. They say "Avoiss! Gorom,
gorom, Where's the AC, Devil-Bab? .
I don't know about Heaven, haven't been there. Even God has problems
identifying certain accents. But does He know Konkani?
Thanks Goanet, Frederick, Bosco, Viviana and all other volunteers and Herman!
And of course you the Goanet posters!
Thanks JoeGoaUK, you are remarkable, keep doing this social work with no end,
and all the other posters and Goan websites and groups like Uly Menezes' and
Gaspar Almeida's GoaWorld, Gulf-Goans and my daily favourite GoanVoiceUK
edited by Eddie Fernandes and all other Goan fora who make my day!
Viva Amchi Bhass!
VIVA GOANET, for offering this opportunity to ALL GOANS!
Silviano Barbosa
Toronto, Canada (Where you get everything Goan)
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Goa-launch of the well-received *Into The Diaspora
Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho on Aug 29, 2010 (Sunday) at 11
am at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. Meet the author, buy a signed
copy (only Rs 295 in Goa till stock lasts).
http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
