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It's all spanish to me. Very strange spanish, with more m-s and ao-s. You can beat me up now

(January 7, 2015 at 6:58 pm)Alex K Wrote: Welcome!

It's all spanish to me. Very strange spanish.

Just out of curiosity, I don't mind your comparison but portuguese people are [generally] very offended, and I mean deeply fucking offended when someone compares our language with spanish (usually Castillian) or confuses us with Spanish people - Probably more offended than Muslims upon an Islam satire

(January 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm)Blackout Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 6:58 pm)Alex K Wrote: Welcome!

It's all spanish to me. Very strange spanish.

Just out of curiosity, I don't mind your comparison but portuguese people are [generally] very offended, and I mean deeply fucking offended when someone compares our language with spanish (usually Castillian) or confuses us with Spanish people - Probably more offended than Muslims upon an Islam satire

Please don't shoot me though. Really, deeply offended? Why? They're obviously very closely related, I don't understand being offended, but if you say so I'll just accept that and apologize. Anyways, I'm half asleep, my brain probably phased out there for a bit, and castilian spanish is the closest thing to portugese I can read, so I tried to read what was written in the thread using that rudimentary knowledge. It was meant as a harmless joke, I remember talking to some braziluans and mexicans and spanish people and they would just switch back and forth for fun, so I didn't think it was a big deal.

(January 7, 2015 at 7:05 pm)Alex K Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm)Blackout Wrote: Just out of curiosity, I don't mind your comparison but portuguese people are [generally] very offended, and I mean deeply fucking offended when someone compares our language with spanish (usually Castillian) or confuses us with Spanish people - Probably more offended than Muslims upon an Islam satire

Please don't shoot me though. Really, deeply offended? Why? They're obviously very closely related, I don't understand being offended. Anyways, I'm half asleep, my brain probably phased out there for a bit, and castilian spanish is the closest thing to portugese I can read, so I tried to read what was written in the thread using that rudimentary knowledge. It was meant as a harmless joke.

No I'm not offended I think it is a fair comparison, I was just pointing out of curiosity that portuguese people have these reactions when they are put in the same pedestal as Spain - Historical conflicts and still present prejudice between both countries are IMO the causes, it's like Japanese not liking the Chinese or the portrayed relationship in the media of the US and Canada, there's examples of that everywhere around the world.

I haven't actually been into Spain enough to see how closely related we are, assuming we're talking about cultural heritage and possibly ethnicity, but there's quite some resemblance, there's also some with French and Italian, usually the so called southern white latinos of Europe, also labelled as the lazy ones [not by mistake sometimes]

To be completely honest, I think Italian is much easier to understand than Spanish, but that's just my opinion. French on the other hand is when I better keep my mouth shut.

I had classes in french and castilian spanish, so I map anything I see on those two
Italian is fun, too. Once when visiting an institute in barcelona, they absolutely refused to do the paperwork in anything other than Catalan. They also don't like to be confused with castilian, as I was made aware by one pissed off taxi driver.

(January 7, 2015 at 7:14 pm)Alex K Wrote: I had classes in french and castilian spanish, so I map anything I see on those two
Italian is fun. Once when visiting an institute in barcelona, they absolutely refused to do the paperwirk in anything other than Catalan. They also don't like to be confused with castilian.

Yes they hate it, there's a reason those fellows want independence so much, my dad spoke both Castelhano (I don't know the word in English, but it's the mainstream spanish you hear on the media often) and Catalan, I didn't understand a single word of the later, it's really significantly different.

I had French classes to, but I just made up some words and luckily I always got an average grade, enough to pass.

We got through the last year of french by basically taking the sophisticated parts of the english vocabulary, reversing the order of words and pronouncing it funny Oy now I've offended the french too.

Bem-vindo ao fórum e nossa família .... eu também sou Português, de ascendência brasileira ... É bom tê-lo aqui!

If I didn't know any better I'd think that Portugal is a haven for atheists! So many here.