(December 19, 2012 at 6:37 pm)median Wrote: pocaracusEvery.single.forum... someone gets my nick wrong.
The worst I got so far was pocahontas... that's a girl's name -.-'
pocaracas comes from a slightly intricate word play in the portuguese language.
I took the original expression "vai para o caraças", which is used in the exact same occasions as "go fuck yourself", however there's no literal translation for this caraças word. The ç has the sound of 's' in sound. Orally, we tend to omit the 'vai' and to concatenate 'para o' as 'pó' (ó mean an open 'o', as in cop), so we're left with pó caraças. Concatenate it and convert non ASCII characters to proper ASCII and you get pocaracas.
So my nick can be seen to mean: fuck'y'self...
That's it, no biggie... why do people get it wrong?!
On the topic at hand, I've said all there was to be said.
