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Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by n72 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @03:35AM (#12021767)
Indeed, my girlfriend, a Brazilian, is teaching me Portuguese. I have real trouble pronouncing the kind of implied "m" and the end of "pão", without which, instead of meaning bread, turns out to mean penis/cock/dick. "Eu como pão" is something I have to be very careful with.
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Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by aandrieiev on Saturday July 02, 2016 @01:14PM (#12023142)
On a related note, most of speakers of East-European languages have hard time with word pairs like "bitch"/"beech" and "shit"/"sheet". Number of "spreadshits" heard at some meetings can't leave anybody cold =)
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Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by sanoli on Saturday July 02, 2016 @04:09PM (#12023641)
Im brazilian and I just laughed out loud on this one. Indeed, be careful with that one.
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Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by fernandotakai on Saturday July 02, 2016 @10:21AM (#12022637)
you could try associating the "m" with something like "palm", but just a little bit closer when speaking.
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