Victor D. Rodrigues, Houston, Teaxs, USA

I think you gave yourself away with this statement. Seems like there are other issues at work with your antagonistic approach to Goans and Konkani. Everyone is entitled to air their prejudices, just don’t expect many sympathizers here.

Exactly. So suppose I’m Konkani and I write a letter to my Konkani friend in Kannada script. Poor him, doesn’t know Feni from Vindaloo about Kannada and hence though being Konkani he does not understand what I wrote him. Get what I am driving at ? Any language has to have a common written script or else it is not a language-per se.

And for what my doppelganger wrote:-

it’s not my ‘goan konkani’, and that wasn’t the point, was it? you brandished something about konkani being a dialect, and cited grierson, both of which you did incorrectly. given that this has been an issue which some marathis thought was serious enough to agitate and get all pissy about (and your claim that “goans don’t have a real language”), and given the other stereotypes (“goans are drunks”) you were peddling even in the face of contradictory data that other people posted… it does make one wonder what your beef is.

Grierson differentiated Goan Konkani from ‘other Konkani’ in that Goan Konkani is a dialect that originated in Goa. Its a dialect nevertheless.

With this I end posting here. I started off saying that Lorna’s song had disturbing lyrics and my prejudiced (I pointed this out myself) opinion about Goans was Feni, Folk and Fish. Regardless, if some guys are in Denial, let it be.

Again, I only expressed my opinion on this public forum, and I reiterate that I respect the Goan community. So let me end it here and continue eating the pork vindaloo and biskoot ambado. Cheers !!

And does your ‘Goan Konkani’ has a script ?

it’s not my ‘goan konkani’, and that wasn’t the point, was it? you brandished something about konkani being a dialect, and cited grierson, both of which you did incorrectly. given that this has been an issue which some marathis thought was serious enough to agitate and get all pissy about (and your claim that “goans don’t have a real language”), and given the other stereotypes (“goans are drunks”) you were peddling even in the face of contradictory data that other people posted… it does make one wonder what your beef is.

I think you gave yourself away with this statement. Seems like there are other issues at work with your antagonistic approach to Goans and Konkani. Everyone is entitled to air their prejudices, just don’t expect many sympathizers here.

Amitabh – shows how much informed you are really. Konkani for centuries has been called as a dialect of Marathi, even much before George Abraham Grierson declared it so.

you’re not very well informed. goan konkani is recognized as an independent language, and is different from the konkani spoken in the konkan region of maharashtra, which is recognized as a dialect. if you actually knew your grierson, you would know that he explicitly made this distinction.

looks like you are fighting the good fight of the maratha manus on all fronts, be it grabbing bottles from goans interested in shearing, or saying that they speak a pretend language.

of course, there is no point demonstrating your ignorance when you proudly make statements like: And all languages (to be called a language) need a script.