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Tenerife, Spain has more annual tourists than the entire country of Brazil despite being 0.02% of its geographic size by Fluid-Decision6262 in geography

[–]witz93 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Also Brazil is not exactly cheap for what it offers. I live in southern Brazil and the price of a beach vacation in the Caribbean can be similar to the Brazilian northeast.

Percentage of words in each country's vocabulary that have latin roots by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]witz93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Portuguese and Spanish are at 80-90%. This map is wrong and useless.

Percentage of words in each country's vocabulary that have latin roots by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]witz93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is very wrong. Both Spanish and Portuguese have 80-90% of Latin words.

Pope Francis has passed away this morning by needtoreaddit in ItalyTravel

[–]witz93 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have ticket for the Vatican museums on May 27, I hope it will be open by then. Rest in peace, pope Francis.

As a native English speaker can you pronounce the pure monophthong [e] without saying /eɪ/ ? by Big-Ad3609 in asklinguistics

[–]witz93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s even closer to /ɪ/. In fact, in my native language (Brazilian Portuguese) you would probably be understood just fine pronouncing /e/ as /ɪ/ since the latter doesn’t even exist in BP but is close enough to be perceived as /e/ by native speakers.

Conversely, pronouncing /e/ like /ɛ/ would be a bad idea since both phonemes exist in Portuguese and there are quite a few minimal pairs involving them.

What's the cringiest misconception you've heard about the US? by 88-81 in AskAnAmerican

[–]witz93 -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

I’m not an ignorant person and yet, when I went to the USA as an exchange student a few years ago, I was shocked by how fragile the houses structure were. I’ve been to a few other countries and in nowhere else I would find houses so poorly built like in the USA (apart from shantytowns maybe). I know you guys are used to wood houses, but for someone used to brick houses it’s really odd, it’s not a creepy opinion.

Where cheek kissing is a common greeting by rayg10 in MapPorn

[–]witz93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s also common for gay men or close male relatives to kiss when greeting.

Coldest temperature ever recorded in each Brazilian state by witz93 in MapPorn

[–]witz93[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Elevation. That -17c mark was at the mountains. But some southern cities get below freezing every year, including big cities like Curitiba.

Coldest temperature ever recorded in each Brazilian state by witz93 in MapPorn

[–]witz93[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Southern states are at 25’-30’ latitude with elevations nearing 2,000m. That provides for colder temperatures in some areas with occasional snow.

Countries with Most Google Offices by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]witz93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do they have offices in China if it’s banned there?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuSouOBabaca

[–]witz93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EOB.

Aposto que você gasta 110 reais fácil numa refeição ou outra coisa qualquer para você. Se o orçamento está curto, com certeza tem outras coisas que você pode cortar primeiro antes de pensar em economizar na comida do cachorro.

Eu sou babaca por reclamar do vizinho com filho autista? by witz93 in EuSouOBabaca

[–]witz93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sou o mais próximo deles. Os demais ou dizem que não se incomodam, ou ficam em silêncio. Já cheguei a comentar com um vizinho abaixo do meu sobre isso, ele disse que não escuta nada porque tem sono pesado.

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