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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by jtreminio on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:10AM (#17219578)
I've only been in Madrid and Seville and Granada (from the states), but that sentence looks like Portuguese to me. Does Barcelona speak a different dialect of Spanish or did you just type out a Portuguese sentence?
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by mitchty on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:26AM (#17219672)
I don't know enough Spanish to talk to that, but its definitely not Portuguese.

calleu d'una puta vegada

There is at least two words, calleu, and vegada that don't exist in any Portuguese I've encountered. Also, d'una is... not something I've seen in Portuguese before.

But I'm a new speaker so I may be missing something.

I found this slang for shut the fuck up in Portuguese, not sure how cromulent it is: https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-portuguese/shut-the-fuc...

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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by dcarmo on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:05AM (#17219851)
Definitely not Portuguese, you're right (source: I'm Brazilian.)
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by mitchty on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:19AM (#17219940)
Thought as much, not enough a's at the ends tripped my spidey sense. >.<
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by riahi on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:36AM (#17219722)
It’s Catalan
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by lsaferite on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:45AM (#17219760)
They speak a lot of Catalan there so perhaps it's colored by that?
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by enriquto on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:32PM (#17220962)
It is not "colored by" catalan. It is grammatically correct catalan.
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by lsaferite on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:02PM (#17223307)
Sweet. I've only been around the area enough to know they speak Catalan, not enough to recognize it when it's written. :)
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by mbroncano on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:22PM (#17223731)
It’s one of the dialects of Spanish they speak there.
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by overkalix on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:11AM (#17225898)
Do you consider Portuguese to be a dialect of Spanish?
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Re:Barcelona residents used sensors to demonstrate high nois... by mbroncano on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:38PM (#17260978)
It’s actually quite the opposite IIRC
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