Continental drift. This was a part of Brazil that broke off and drifted across the ocean. Then it joined up with the rest of Spain, which had broken off from Mexico. That’s why the rest of Spain speaks Mexican.
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ray@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
scytale@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
And France is just a part of Quebec that drifted away.
ray@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
France was actually two parts of Québec that drifted separately and then rejoined later on. The Paris region lingered in the ocean a bit longer, and people got accustomed to thinking of it as an island. That’s why they named it Île-de-France.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I thought Brazilian was a number
Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
“Two Brazilians died in a car accident.”
Holy shit.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I can count to brazillion. It’s a lot of tits.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s a wax.
Magnum@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Its the word Sheldon Cooper says in Big Bang Theory when he delivers a pun on someone else’s costs.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Saw a student once using the term “Port of Guesses” unironically in a final submission.
Like, how do you fuck up that badly that you don’t notice that? I mean obviously it was just laziness, but still.
So now I’ve got a minecraft village named the Port of Guesses in honor of that nonsense lol
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Almost as bad as that report for “Youth in Asia”
save_the_humans@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Or that neurodegenerative disease the elderly get, “old timers”
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
“They tell us how to run our lives, we run for youth in Asia!”
– David Mustaine before proof reading the lyrics of one of the best albums in the history of music
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“Yeah, they gave it to some kid in china or something”
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For the longest time as a kid I really wanted to know why my church cared so much about Asian kids.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I started saying “US of A” out loud because of internet memeing and one time it slipped during a (non-English) language class. I genuinely didn’t clock why people were laughing. I didn’t register I said that instead of the proper way.
Coconut1233@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Genuinely - as a non-American - what’s wrong with saying “US of A”?
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I know it’s a shitpost, but here’s an interesting piece of History:
- Back in the late 15th century, before Christopher Colombus officially discovered the Americas (more on that later), the Portuguese and the Spanish made a Treaty - the Treaty of Tordesillas - where they divided the World in half, each one getting one half of it.
- Whilst making the Treaty, the original proposal was that the dividing line (remember, this was before the first trip around the World) would be a North-South line, located 20 nautical miles East of the Cape Verde Islands (which are just East of the coast of Africa). With the Portuguese side being to the East of that line and the Spanish side to the West.
- The Portuguese refused that location and instead wanted that line 20,000 nautical miles East of the Cape Verder islands, which was what ended up in that Treaty.
- Where is now Brazil is to the East of that line, on the Portuguese side, and the rest of South America is to the West of that line, on the Spanish side
This is why the Portuguese and the Brazilians speak the same language, whilst the rest of South America speaks the same language as the Spanish.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the Chinese before that, and what we now consider the native people before that, and tiny sailors from Africa before that.
Caves_of_steel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I havent heard about the african sailors before - can you point me where i could learn Mord about it ?
I will also throw polynesians in - since the sweetpotato had to come from somewhere
MrPommeroy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The Americas are to the west of Europe.. 🙂
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And to the East, unless you’re a Flat Earther.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Did you know that American is also northsouth of Europe? Just go north and ignore the pole, just keep going on a straight line south.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And to the east. That’s the thing about spheres…
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think I have seen claims that EVERYBODY made it to the Americas before C Columbus. In no order: the Vikings (might be true)
the Irish
the Romans
the Egyptians
the Basques
the Phoenicians
the Polynesians (probably true)
and, of course, people from AtlantisMyceliumNetwork@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I once heard a great science presentation using sweet potato genetics to make a timeline of Polynesian island inhabitance and it blew my mind. And since then, there is genetic evidence of S American indigenous DNA in some Polynesian populations.
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I also heard that Christopher Columbus tried to secure funding for his expedition, aiming to reach India without sailing around Africa, from the Portuguese Crown before approaching the Spanish one, but he did not obtain the funding.
Some take this as possible evidence that the Portuguese were already aware of a potential territory to the West that would block or complicate the voyage to India via that route.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Some people still know how to make shitposts with deep stank .
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think I’ve seen a Riddick reference in… my entire life?
But I’ve just watched it, for the first time in about a decade, and then the next day I see a screenshot of it on Lemmy?
Dead internet theory must be real
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pitch Black is worth watching. The Chronicles of Riddick… meh, Karl Urban delivers though. Riddick is a dumbass Pitch Black rip off in the guise of the third instalment in a trilogy that never was.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe I’m a bot who has been monitoring your entertainment traffic specifically to incept this shit onto your monitor.
Or maybe I just got through a Fast and Furious montage and had Vin Diesel’s “This is Brazil!” lodged in my brain, but opted for this picture because it isn’t just him in a wife-beater yelling at Dwayne Johnson.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How to piss off at least three sets of people in one shot.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Better question why does a country sharing two land borders speak a completely different language to any other country.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
There’s a lot of similarities between Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Most Portuguese speaking people can understand basic Spanish but it’s harder for Spanish speaking people to understand Portuguese.
At least that’s what my wife tells me as a Spanish native ~150 days into learning Portuguese.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
IMO (formal) American Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close to mutually intelligible, especially in writing. There’s a surprisingly consistent “system” for converting words between them and once you notice it, it’s pretty easy to tell what a sentence should be in the other language, if it’s even spelled differently in the first place. The grammar is also very similar. The biggest difference that gets me is how Portuguese tends to shift past tense conjugations further into the past vs Spanish.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because Portuguese has many more vowels than Spanish and there are a lot of false friends between the two.
Timbo1970@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hungary opens a beer and smiles…
matelt@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The Euskera guys bring the popcorn…
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s often said that a language is just a dialect with an army.
Portuguese and Spanish (Castilian) are more closely related than Castilian is to Catalan. Yet Catalan is often classified as a dialect of Spanish than a language in its own right.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Basque is also there and a completely different language family.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I have no idea which language you’re referring to!
redpulpo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do they speak “Brazilian” in Portugal? Same reason people in England speak “American”, obviously. Basic history took the day off, I see. 😅
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
🇺🇸 English
redpulpo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Brazilian” isn’t a language, just like “American” isn’t a language. Brazil speaks Portuguese, and the US speaks English. Nice try, though.
redpulpo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😂
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And in the south of Spain, they speak American. Super weird.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Maybe it has something to do with the giant red rubber band surrounding it
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, yes, the Brazillian Guiana.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I assure you they don’t speak Brazilian.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Old Brazillian
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
International Brazilian may be a better name. Several countries speak a language similar to it.
wieson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Macauan-Angolan
MrSusan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Makes me imagine a world where colonization happened in reverse. England would be fucked.
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 2 weeks ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I mean prior to the mid 1500s that’s exactly what did happen.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s port-of-greece actually
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s port-port actually.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You forgot to ask why there’s a part that speaks English.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why is the Spanish they speak in Brazil so fucking weird?? Are they retarded?!? /s
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ngl, Portuguese has always sounded like spanish with a dash of russian… never understood that…
nerv@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
The two languages split and diverged into the forms they currently have due to the people living in the territories.
Portugal developed a more nasal and closed speech, where vowels are commonly swallowed or nasal, closer to celtic speech roots, while spanish maintaned its more open speech structure, with every vowel clearly marked.
It’s easy for a portuguese to follow spanish and brazillian while the opposite is often not. The european portuguese is denser, more compact and even faster for the majority of time. By comparison, spanish and brazilian are slower paced and open.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
They used to be the same country but then the Portuguese got offended for some reason and left. They regret this decision to this day and are commonly known as “the sad ones” n Spain.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Brazil? That’s where the nuts come from
Mosfar@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There are lots of Brazilians in Portugal, so that is not completely wrong
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
there is a lot of portugueses in luxembourg, dont ask why i know this
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s little Brazil I think.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s because Roald Dahl plays soccer now.
halendos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Image (not my meme)
halendos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Image (also relevant, also not my meme)
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I don’t know about Portuguese but there is a meme about English:
Which is not really historically accurate because both standards developed more or less simultaneously after independence and before standardization, the variety was greater than the difference today. But I digress.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Am Portuguese, can confirm.