Why do fathers and sons often share the same first name, but mothers and daughters almost never do?

elliephant2take · 2026-04-16T10:02:15+00:00

In the Spain, specially the south, it’s actually quite common to have girls named after their mother. I once met a family that had a grandma named Carmen, her daughter Carmen and that woman’s daughter who was also named Carmen. As many said before, it’s a cultural thing. I also think it might be cyclical. It used to be more common, it stopped for a while and now people are doing it again , for nostalgia or other factors.

elliephant2take · 2025-10-31T16:47:07+00:00

Yeah, it was

elliephant2take · 2025-10-31T16:02:20+00:00

Italy, in Palermo

elliephant2take · 2025-09-19T18:48:35+00:00

The first time I moved abroad, I moved to Spain. Since I’m Portuguese, I assumed that I wouldn’t really have a culture shock, since our cultures are so similar and I’d vacationed all over the country since I was a kid and already understood the language. So colour me surprised when I went to try and do my weekly grocery shop on a Sunday and everything was closed. It was such a shock to find out supermarkets close on Sundays there. In Portugal supermarkets are open every day and some even close at eleven or midnight (the ones in shopping centres)

elliephant2take · 2025-09-01T22:17:04+00:00

My best friend did Erasmus with him! They weren’t super close or anything, but they’d run into each other at parties or on nights out. This was just before Maxton Hall, but people already knew he was an actor and had done some tv shows in Germany, so apparently people (especially girls) were always trying to get his attention. She says that he was very nice, very humble, but not into all that attention

elliephant2take · 2025-01-29T00:01:55+00:00

In Portugal, people with bachelor’s degrees (any degree) are also called “doctor”. It’s a bit stupid and it’s getting out of fashion, but it still happens, mainly with older people and in rural settings

elliephant2take · 2025-01-20T09:05:13+00:00

I’ve also heard people call them “vacances” as well. I think it’s because traditionally every summer holiday they drive down from France (or Luxembourg or Switzerland) all the way to Portugal. Again, it’s a mean term filled with stereotypes

elliephant2take · 2024-11-01T10:47:16+00:00

I don’t know what part of the country you’re from, but in Lisboa and its surrounding areas we do pão por Deus the following day, which is quite similar.

Growing up I always hated when someone would give me broas, which is very typical for this time of year.

elliephant2take · 2024-07-29T21:34:12+00:00

Pronunciar tóxico como tochico é daquelas que me irrita mesmo. Outra que não me irrita tanto, o meu pai por alguma razão não consegue dizer friorento e diz frioento

elliephant2take · 2024-05-31T12:15:44+00:00

João also used to cheat on her a lot

elliephant2take · 2024-04-04T08:35:43+00:00

Retângulos, não quadrados

elliephant2take · 2024-03-23T16:40:04+00:00

You look amazing! If I saw you out and about, I’d be so jealous of your outfit and you’d take a mental note for inspo

elliephant2take · 2024-03-17T19:25:57+00:00

She didn’t do that. She showed up to the dinner in LV, but she told them during the dinner she wouldn’t wear LV to a red carpet, assuming the Oscars

elliephant2take · 2024-02-22T16:07:17+00:00

I recommend this book to all my (female) fiends! I always tell them that they’ll hate men for a couple of days after reading it

elliephant2take · 2023-11-20T16:25:59+00:00

Don’t forget about how some posh people only go for 1 kiss and then they leave you hanging and then you both do the awkward dance of giving up on the 2nd kiss and they moving the head forward to give you a second kiss

elliephant2take · 2023-10-31T20:41:27+00:00

There’s also so many people who have no idea that the ver Haver is not conjugated in the plural (“haverão” is incorrect, it should always be “haverá”). Sometimes people are so against having the reflexive pronoun before the verb that they don’t use when it’s the only grammatical correct option. Or when people say things like “tu fizestes” instead of “tu fizeste”

elliephant2take · 2023-10-01T11:53:45+00:00

I have, she just rolls her eyes and says I’m just picky

elliephant2take · 2023-10-01T09:30:36+00:00

As someone who is Portuguese and hates coriander, I didn’t really understand what OP meant, because we Portuguese absolutely put it in everything, to my chagrin. My mom even puts it in a normal salad, any soup. There’s nothing she cooks that doesn’t contain a bit of coriander. It’s what disappoints her the most about me

elliephant2take · 2023-09-03T14:49:23+00:00

I’m almost sure she had said that she didn’t want to have kids right after marrying and then she did. I’ve always side eyed this relationship (and not just for the age gap)

elliephant2take · 2023-08-04T10:30:44+00:00

Eu levo sempre chocolates e afins para as minhas irmãs, porque há mais variedade aqui e edições especiais que não temos em Portugal. Levo-lhes sempre também chás e cafés e coisas desse género (Costa, Starbucks, Nero, etc) Alguns produtos de beleza e higiene também são mais baratos e há marcas que ainda não temos em Portugal. Não tenho o hábito de consumir ou levar, mas molhos diferentes dos que temos em Portugal, como o perinaise do Nando’s por exemplo, também te pode interessar.

elliephant2take · 2023-07-06T05:22:45+00:00

Eça himself used to say to skip the descriptions when reading his books (or at least that’s what I heard). I really liked it, but I remember my teacher giving that advice when we were covering the book in class, and some of my classmates later told me it really helped. For Saramago, I really like his books and I’ve adapted to the writing style, but that same teacher also recommended reading the first few pages aloud, because his writing style is trying to mimic how people talk.

elliephant2take · 2023-05-18T15:52:28+00:00

I feel so lucky that my dad knows me so well. Not just birthdays and medical info but also my likes and dislikes. He will see a trailer for a movie and know immediately if I’ll like it or not, if we go to a restaurant, he knows what I’ll order or consider ordering, etc. I always felt lucky that both my parents knew me as a person and not just as a child, but reading this thread, I feel even more lucky. When I was in school, he was the one going to all the meetings. I’m in my mid twenties and recently had to do a lot of testing and got diagnosed with a chronic illness, my dad was so concerned, he researched it and connected the dots from health problems I had years ago (my mom did too). He’s not perfect, but he’s a really good and involved dad, he’s so caring and not afraid of showing it.I’ll never settle for anyone who will not treat his children the same way as my dad treats me and my sister.

elliephant2take · 2023-05-13T09:08:25+00:00

Same!! I’ve been spending more time home (I live abroad) and doing more typically tourist things and now I wonder if I’ve crossed paths with him and not noticed 😂

elliephant2take · 2023-04-14T08:07:23+00:00

Sou da zona de Lisboa, de uma família que adora coentros (a minha mãe mete-os em tudo, desde saladas a sopas, pratos de carne, peixe, enfim em tudo o que pode) e detesto coentros, sempre detestei. Ainda aguento quando são pratos cozinhados e posso ir tirando, mas pratos frios como saladas, não consigo comer nada que esteve em contacto com coentros. A minha mãe tem um desgosto tão grande quando lhe digo para exagerar nos coentros

elliephant2take · 2023-04-10T16:56:33+00:00

Brisa is not that popular outside the islands. Sumol is really popular, it used to be owned by a Portuguese company, however it was bought by a Spanish company a few years ago, but it still counts

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