(August 16, 2013 at 3:36 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Japes Charleston?
That makes you sound like an Agatha Christie character. "Swords At Dawn - a Japes Charleston mystery".
(August 16, 2013 at 3:56 am)pocaracas Wrote: PS. language detail: the 'ç' is read like a 's'. we use the cedilla to turn a 'c' before an 'a' or 'o' (which should generally be read as 'k') into the 's' sound.
I always thought that was pronounced as a soft 'th' sound, as in 'thing'. That's how it works in Spanish, I believe. Is it different in Portuguese? It's the rationale behind the misconception, seldom heard these days, that everyone from that part of the world speaks with a lisp.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
