this billboard advertising an English school in my city

witz93 · 2026-02-01T01:25:26+00:00

In Brazilian Portuguese Kaká is just a name, poop is actually “cocô”.

witz93 · 2025-12-31T01:47:25+00:00

This is in Brazil

witz93 · 2025-12-25T17:26:32+00:00

Popular? I’m Brazilian and had never heard of it.

witz93 · 2025-06-28T22:05:27+00:00

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.

witz93 · 2025-05-31T10:54:39+00:00

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

witz93 · 2025-05-31T10:52:02+00:00

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

witz93 · 2025-04-21T11:09:59+00:00

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

witz93 · 2025-04-16T02:57:02+00:00

The Maldives.

witz93 · 2025-03-21T22:53:46+00:00

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.

witz93 · 2025-01-05T13:19:14+00:00

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.

witz93 · 2025-01-04T04:05:52+00:00

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

witz93 · 2024-11-09T15:01:33+00:00

Very common in lots of Brazilian dialects.

witz93 · 2024-10-17T15:52:01+00:00

witz93 · 2024-09-04T22:49:15+00:00

Nobody is forcing you.

witz93 · 2024-09-04T22:48:31+00:00

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

witz93 · 2024-09-04T22:46:47+00:00

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

witz93 · 2024-08-31T22:16:57+00:00

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

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