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  • halendos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image (not my meme)

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    • halendos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image (also relevant, also not my meme)

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t know about Portuguese but there is a meme about English:

        [UK flag] English (traditional)

        [US flag] English (simplified)

        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.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Am Portuguese, can confirm.

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  • ray@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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    • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And France is just a part of Quebec that drifted away.

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      • ray@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought Brazilian was a number

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    • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Two Brazilians died in a car accident.”

      Holy shit.

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I can count to brazillion. It’s a lot of tits.

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    • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a wax.

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      • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Its the word Sheldon Cooper says in Big Bang Theory when he delivers a pun on someone else’s costs.

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Almost as bad as that report for “Youth in Asia”

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      • save_the_humans@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Or that neurodegenerative disease the elderly get, “old timers”

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • Bombastic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “Yeah, they gave it to some kid in china or something”

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      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What does it correspond to?

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        For the longest time as a kid I really wanted to know why my church cared so much about Asian kids.

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    • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        US AND A

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      • Coconut1233@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Genuinely - as a non-American - what’s wrong with saying “US of A”?

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And the Chinese before that, and what we now consider the native people before that, and tiny sailors from Africa before that.

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      • Caves_of_steel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • MrPommeroy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Americas are to the west of Europe.. 🙂

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And to the East, unless you’re a Flat Earther.

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      • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And to the east. That’s the thing about spheres…

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 Atlantis

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      • MyceliumNetwork@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Tryenjer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    😘👌🏼

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some people still know how to make shitposts with deep stank .

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Map of North America, the middle part is circled. Text: why does this part of Canada speak Englandese?

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I blame Afonso Henriques, pictured below

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    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How to piss off at least three sets of people in one shot.

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  • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Better question why does a country sharing two land borders speak a completely different language to any other country.

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    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Because Portuguese has many more vowels than Spanish and there are a lot of false friends between the two.

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    • Timbo1970@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hungary opens a beer and smiles…

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      • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Euskera guys bring the popcorn…

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    • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Basque is also there and a completely different language family.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have no idea which language you’re referring to!

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  • redpulpo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why do they speak “Brazilian” in Portugal? Same reason people in England speak “American”, obviously. Basic history took the day off, I see. 😅

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🇺🇸 English

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      • redpulpo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “Brazilian” isn’t a language, just like “American” isn’t a language. Brazil speaks Portuguese, and the US speaks English. Nice try, though.

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      • redpulpo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        😂

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  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And in the south of Spain, they speak American. Super weird.

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  • olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe it has something to do with the giant red rubber band surrounding it

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  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah, yes, the Brazillian Guiana.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I assure you they don’t speak Brazilian.

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    • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Old Brazillian

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        International Brazilian may be a better name. Several countries speak a language similar to it.

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    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Macauan-Angolan

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  • MrSusan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Makes me imagine a world where colonization happened in reverse. England would be fucked.

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    • Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
      Attachment: media.gehirneimer.de ↗
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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean prior to the mid 1500s that’s exactly what did happen.

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s port-of-greece actually

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    • Tryenjer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s port-port actually.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You forgot to ask why there’s a part that speaks English.

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  • jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why is the Spanish they speak in Brazil so fucking weird?? Are they retarded?!? /s

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ngl, Portuguese has always sounded like spanish with a dash of russian… never understood that…

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      • nerv@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brazil? That’s where the nuts come from

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  • Mosfar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There are lots of Brazilians in Portugal, so that is not completely wrong

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    • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      there is a lot of portugueses in luxembourg, dont ask why i know this

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s little Brazil I think.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s because Roald Dahl plays soccer now.

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