Re: [Goanet] Language gives hint of coconut's importance to Goa: new book

2009-12-07 Thread Manuel Caldeira
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

Re: [Goanet] Language gives hint of coconut's importance to Goa: new book

2009-12-07 Thread M.D'MELLO
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