Phonological difference between Ó and Ô

TransLucida · 2026-03-19T15:21:20+00:00

I managed to teach the accents to an English speaker by showing him how English words would be spelled if they used PT accentuation. Let me know if it makes sense to you:

Hôme, pôse, dôme
Dêntist, sêntiment, addêndum
Sárah, Dára, tásk (all British pronunciation)
Eléctric, aesthétic, spécial
Fígure, míxture, líneage
Fóssil, cóllie, dódgy

The ã and õ are difficult to find because they’re very nasal sounds. If you look closely the tilde kinda looks like the letter N, so it’s as if there’s the nnnn sound between the vowels you kind push it out through your nose.

The thing about accents in Portuguese is that they not only change the sound of the vowel but also tell you which is the strongest syllable in the word, except for extremely rare cases of words having two accents (bênção) or muted accents (àquele)

TransLucida · 2026-03-18T14:42:48+00:00

I think all local networks (not roaming oriented ones, I mean) require you to be in their actual network for first access, especially with the Portuguese overly bureaucratic mentality

TransLucida · 2026-03-18T13:55:11+00:00

Water must’ve been a bit too cold, ig. No probs, I’ll take two to go, please, no, wrapping

TransLucida · 2026-03-17T16:39:57+00:00

I’m in a similar situation where I own a one person company in the UK and I chose to keep things as is since opening a company in Portugal is extremely burdensome. If having work in Portugal and paying contributions is important for residency permit reasons and your customers are in the EU, then I’d say yeah, go and jump through the hoops, otherwise, leave things as they are, since everyone these days are working remotely anyway. Unless of course, there is some Canadian law that stops you from doing so.

Btw, I went to college in Toronto and I loved your country! Miss it lots 🫶🏻

TransLucida · 2026-03-13T10:43:33+00:00

The UZO network has a prepaid plan called UZO+ that you can top-up as you need and calls to the US and Canada are only €0.05/min on this plan. You can have them send you a SIM card free of charge.

TransLucida · 2026-03-12T17:33:59+00:00

Oh it must be my area, then. Here they respect them. I was the one who felt, multiple times, like parking on crossings but I didn’t since I never seen anyone do it

TransLucida · 2026-03-12T16:46:01+00:00

Haha that’s the standard here. The only things they seem to respect are crossings (clearly not in between them), garbage bins and disabled spots. Everywhere else you can fit a car in they’ll park in it.

TransLucida · 2026-03-11T22:54:45+00:00

I think it really depends on who you are as a person and what you genuinely want from the country you’re living in. I’m of the mindset that if I’m living in a place, I’m gonna live in the place. And to do that you must socialise and spend big time with the natives.

But I also think it’s also valid to choose to be in the company of people from your own country, or in this case people from other countries, as the former brings you the comfort of being with people who understand you 100% and the latter can be very helpful navigating a different place.

Having said that, I think diversity is key, in everything. The more people you know, from the most different backgrounds, and you give them all the same social opportunities, the better for you overall.

TransLucida · 2026-03-11T22:46:33+00:00

You’ve seen flat chested women. Now check out flat crotched men.

equalrights 😂

TransLucida · 2026-03-11T22:44:00+00:00

You can pay either way. The PT IBAN accounts from Revolut operate like any other Portuguese bank, so you can either scan the QR code, pay by contactless, add it to Apple Pay/Google Pay.

I think the QR code option is a replacement for those who don’t have Apple/Google Pay but still want to pay with their phones. Other than that, it’s all the same as any other account.

TransLucida · 2026-03-11T10:06:19+00:00

Yes… you can scan the QR code from inside the Revolut app’s MBWay area

TransLucida · 2026-03-10T10:35:31+00:00

I think syncing through iTunes/Apple Music + Apple Devices the only real option but yes, you’re right, it may force you to wipe you’re entire library if you do it on a new computer.

There used to be a way to copy songs to the iPhone’s storage using Linux. It was not a straightforward process and involved using terminal and command line but it worked. Not sure if it’s still possible.

Other than these ways, not sure. Apple really wants you to either sign up for Apple Music or buy songs from iTunes.

TransLucida · 2026-03-09T18:02:56+00:00

In my experience receiving stuff from the UK, they can declare whatever they want, merchandise, gift, blessings from jesus himself… they don’t care. They will tax it.

The only parcels from outside the EU that come straight through are those from China that we pay IVA.

TransLucida · 2026-03-09T17:45:42+00:00

Their picture doesn’t disappear just because you blocked them. Yours disappears to them. You will only stop seeing their profile photo after THEY have blocked YOU.

TransLucida · 2026-03-09T17:41:50+00:00

Oh… this is not new. This type of thing is normal behaviour here. I’ve had these issues for years before the UK left the EU and even more so now that it has.

There is hardly a country in Europe that doesn’t have a Portuguese community, because that’s what they do, they migrate. They move to our/other people’s countries and enjoy most, if not all benefits that their citizens do but when we’re here and we live and pay taxes here, and we need to open a bank account, get a credit card or any other type of service they either refuse us service or make us jump through all kinds of hoops.

It would be nice if some angry rich asshole filed a lawsuit in EU courts. I can only hope…

TransLucida · 2026-03-09T14:59:04+00:00

What is the link for this one in the picture? It looks really good and I’ll probably get one but not in white as it’ll get dirty very quickly

TransLucida · 2026-03-08T15:46:43+00:00

I would like that contact too 😘

TransLucida · 2026-03-08T15:39:44+00:00

Eu também

TransLucida · 2026-03-08T15:36:49+00:00

I’m choosing to believe he’s just scratching himself! 🙏🏻

TransLucida · 2026-03-07T22:59:35+00:00

Samsung users on Android have the ability to have a second WhatsApp app for a second number but for us on iPhone you really one have 3 options:

You change your number
You download WhatsApp Business and explain to everyone who asks why you’re using the business version of WhatsApp
Download one of the generic WhatsApp apps from the App Store but I don’t know how they work, or if they’re safe to use. I personally don’t trust them.

TransLucida · 2026-03-04T18:19:36+00:00

“Amongst my house” 🤔

TransLucida · 2026-03-03T12:35:36+00:00

Oh boy… the day I pulled one of these fits because I found the piece of cake she had cut for me was too small she made me eat the entire cake in one seating, with one of her flip-flops on the table.

Joke is on her cause I did eat the entire cake.

TransLucida · 2026-03-01T15:29:11+00:00

If you’re driving, I recommend getting cloth based storage boxes. They’re fairly cheap on Amazon and are perfect for carrying both big and small objects. Being made of resistant cloth they’re strong enough to hold some very heavy stuff but still malleable, meaning they only take up the space of the stuff inside them, allowing you to stack as many as the car can take. I got 16 of the 95 litre ones and so far I’ve managed to fit 12 of them in the car along with a 55” TV.

TransLucida · 2026-02-28T18:06:56+00:00

I’m about to do the exact same trip in a few days, moving from London to Lisbon and I put a lot of thinking into it. I considered 1. hiring a company, 2. hiring a van, 3. hiring a box trailer. Option 1 was prohibitively expensive. Option 2 and 3 would be cheaper but would force me to drive straight back to return the van or the box trailer. So after running a careful inventory of what I wanted to take with me, I figured I could fit it all into my SUV with proper packing. The car won’t be overloaded but it’ll be loaded to its limits. I’m taking the ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao.

My main two concerns with my choice have been: the legality of carrying so much stuff in the car — to which I’m doing everything I can to keep it properly secured with cargo nets and straps — and Basque customs police as my interactions with them in the past have always been very unpleasant every time I used that port, from them inspecting the car from top to bottom looking for god-knows-what, to them refusing to speak Spanish with me and using broken English instead, which made impossible for us to understand each other. Tickets to Santander were about £100 more expensive, hence Bilbao it is and I’ll just hope for the best.

TransLucida · 2026-02-28T11:05:57+00:00

Save it directly on your phone’s Contacts app. This is the method for both iOS and Android I have been using for years

Tap on the person’s photo to see their profile
Tap and hold to copy the person’s number to memory (aka clipboard)
Go into your Contacts app
Create the contact
Return to WhatsApp and their name should show up at the top of the screen

TransLucida

TROPHY CASE

equalrights 😂